Documents that BPAC refers to or requires in its deliberations are posted in this section for examination and download. In addition, some useful resources are listed below.

• “Improving Bicycling and Pedestrian Safety” is a great all-in-one resource. Its target audience is both advocates and transportation professionals. A very well balanced and thorough guide – chapter 6 “Communicating between advocates and transportation professionals” is particularly good.
• The federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) provides standards that transportation engineers are compelled to follow. Advocates’ recommendations should be consistent with MUTCD standards, which do allow quite a bit of leeway for context-specific treatments.
• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) website — lots of good information on a multitude of transportation-related topics.
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Iinformation Center — Good basic information and lots of links to other information.
• National Cooperative Highway Research Program (PDF, 5 mb) — This is a VERY comprehensive document regarding many resources concerning roadway safety issues. About the first 20 pages (page 11-35) are mostly general in nature and provide a very good summary of the issues. Page 41 onward is a listing of many links, references and information.

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, affectionately known as MUTCD, is a federal publication that shows images of all the officially defined/approved signs and defines how all the markings and signs on roads should be implemented.  The whole book is some 900 pages long; excerpted here is Part 9, Traffic Control for Bicycle Facilities. It’s kind of interesting to browse through it — it’s like an old Sears Roebuck catalog for road signs.

• MUTCD 2009, Part 9 (PDF, 427 kb)