Reference Documents
Reference Documents
New Jersey Bicycling Manual
March 2010, New Jersey Department of Transportation
The updated New Jersey Bicycle manual includes extensive information about bicycling in the state of New Jersey. It includes information about what to look for when you are buying a bike, how to check your bicycle for safety, how to share the road, Complete Streets and much, much more. The manual also clearly documents safety issues and bicycle laws in New Jersey.
Pedestrian & Bicyclist Safety and Mobility in Europe
February 2010, FHWA
Evaluation of innovative foreign technologies and practices that could significantly benefit U.S. highway transportation systems. This approach allows for technology to be adapted and put into practice much more efficiently without spending scarce research funds to re-create advances already developed by other countries.
“Safety in numbers: more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and bicycling”
Jacobsen, P L. Injury Prevention (2003) 9:205–20.
This study seeks to examine the relationship between the numbers of people walking or bicycling and the
frequency of collisions between motorists and walkers or bicyclists. The common wisdom holds that the
number of collisions varies directly with the amount of walking and bicycling. However, three published
analyses of collision rates at specific intersections found a non-linear relationship, such that collisions
rates declined with increases in the numbers of people walking or bicycling.
It concludes that a motorist is less likely to collide with a person walking and bicycling if more people walk or bicycle. Policies that increase the numbers of people walking and bicycling appear to be an effective route to improving the safety of people walking and bicycling.
NJ Walks and Bikes Newsletter
August 11, 2011, The Voorhees Center
The Voorhees Transportation Center, with support from the New Jersey Department of Transportation through funds provided by the Federal Highway Administration have partnered to create the New Jersey Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Center (BPRC). The BPRC’s goal is to assist public officials, transportation and health professionals, and the public in creating a safer and more accessible walking and bicycling environment. New Jersey Walks and Bikes Blog has been created to provide more frequent updates on bicycle and pedestrian issues in the state of New Jersey and throughout the nation. The New Jersey Walks and Bike Newsletter, which was produced each quarter will now be replaced by this blog as a way to provide this information in a more up to date manner.
Safe Routes Scoop
August 11, 2011,
Safe Routes Scoop is the blog of the New Jersey Safe Routes to School Program (SRTS), managed by the New Jersey Safe Routes to School Resource Center at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, located within the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
The Most Dangerous Roads for New Jersey Pedestrians
October 2011
In an effort to bring attention to the dangers pedestrians face across New Jersey, personal injury law firm Console & Hollawell created an infographic to help bring these statistics to light and ultimately help pedestrians maintain more awareness when crossing these dangerous New Jersey streets.