Bicycle and Pedestrian Applied Research

ITRE provides applied research services to clients focusing on operations, planning, engineering, and program development to answer questions that aid in practical decision-making at the state and national level. By and tailoring research objectives and experimental design to stakeholder needs to work within project scope and budget ITRE staff enjoy flexing their analytical skills and out-of-the-box thinking. Recent projects that the Bicycle and Pedestrian Program have been involved include:

• Evaluation of shoulder rumble strips on bicyclist comfort and speed
• Bicyclist and pedestrian access and operations at superstreets, diverging diamond interchanges, roundabouts, and other alternative intersections
• Pedestrian crossing needs assessment
• Operations and geometrics research related to pedestrians with vision disabilities
• Pedestrian delay modeling
• Changeable message signs in school zones
• Driver yielding behavior at crosswalks
• User perceptions studies
• Economic impact of bicycle facilities