Showing posts with label Pedestrians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pedestrians. Show all posts
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Bicycle Signals Discussion at the NCUTCD Meeting

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At the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Committee Joint Signals/Bicycles meeting last night we made progress on the pr...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

How far is too far to walk to a traffic signal or beacon?

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I was considering the question I fielded at the Livable Streets Talk last night and came across this excerpt from the NCHRP 562 report that...

Pedestrian Treatments in Cambridge

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The treatments in Cambridge seemed to be an effort that has been significant in the past several years. The first intersection I encountered...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Lamenting a Pedestrian's Experience on a Crosswalk and Measuring Delay at Signals

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One of the smartest men in the Transportation Business, Darcy Bullock from Purdue University is visiting Portland the first part of this wee...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Portland UGB Trail: A Concept for Building the Region's Bike Network

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A regional trail outside of Delft features excellent wayfinding. I have often said that there is a lot that we can learn from the Dutch. ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Pedestrian Scramble Debate in Canada

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I picked this up off the ITE E-Newsletter Vancouver Sees Future in 'Scramble' Intersections, Toronto Sees Congestion http://news.n...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Transportation Safety Map - Fatalities 2001-2009

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Friday, December 9, 2011

2012 Transportation Research Board Meeting Schedule

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This year's Transportation Research Board meeting promises to be as busy as ever. I have gotten myself involved in five separate activit...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Traffic Signals and Their Role in Congestion and Placemaking

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Great couple of posts on Traffic Signals, yet the perspecptives on signal timing are about more than 10 years old from the Portland viewpoin...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Meaning of the Flashing Don't Walk at Traffic Signals - Pedestrian Countdown Timer Model Ordinance from Salt Lake City

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What does it mean? It's all French to me.  At the Workshop on Pedestrian Safety at Midblock Crossings I learned about the following...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Pedestrian Scramble aka Barnes Dance

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The posting of transportation videos on YouTube is something that will make future engineers more innovative. Here's a great summary fro...

Transportation Research Board Paper Acceptance

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Sirisha Kothuri, one of the City of Portland's interns over the summer wrote up a paper describing our work to use existing signal contr...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Walk21 Davie Street Walkshop

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Gordon Price hosted the Walkshop on Davie Street that took us to the West End, the neighborhood that he lives in. We started at the Seawall...
Monday, October 3, 2011

Walk 21 Conference Venue : Everything is Going to be Alright

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The folks at Walk21 have it figured out. When you have a conference pick a good venue. The conference reception was held at an Art Gallery w...

Walk 21 Transforming the Automobile City

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I am in Vancouver BC this morning attending the Walk 21 Conference and this is the insert in the Globe & Mail newspaper. The conscious...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Pedestrian Countdown Timers and End of Green

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An example where the pedestrian countdown doesn't agree with the vehicle signal indication. I had a request inquiring about wh...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Delays at Traffic Signanls

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Great post by a blog that I haven't read for awhile, but came across it while I was searching for a few things. Click the title for a p...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Transportation in Copenhagen

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 The blue marking denotes a conflict area for oncoming traffic that is accepting a gap in vehicle and bicycle traffic. There's c...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Review of Manual: the Movie

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I starred in a Filmed By Bike video this year. I wasn't completely sure what the interview was going to be for and whether I would be on...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Delay at Traffic Signals

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A nice write up on the different philosophies of traffic signal timing in the various communities in the U.S. and the Netherlands. Here...