The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans or “Departmentâ€) manages more than 15,000 miles of state highways, ranging in scale and function from local streets to interstate highways. Historically, Caltrans has been governed by the principles of highway engineering, which...

This literature review is the culmination of the first phase of a research study directed at reviewing, analyzing, and quantifying the impacts of transportation corridors’ design features on user behavior, safety, community and economic vitality, environmental quality, and public health....

This paper reports on research conducted by the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center and sponsored by the California Department of Transportation (“Caltransâ€) to establish performance measures for pedestrian and bicycle safety and mobility along urban arterials. Although...

This study and report is about street trees and intersection safety in urban contexts. The study derives from a rather simple, straightforward observation: that on the best tree-lined streets the trees come close to the corners. They do not stop at some distance back from the intersecting street...

This paper is collaborative in every respect. Jacobs conceived of the study and was the overall director of the research. Macdonald administered the project. Detailed tasks were jointly organized and fieldwork was done by all four authors, usually in groups of two or three. Marsh and Wilson...

This report contains five chapters, each with a number of sub-sections. Chapter I presents a summary of the research findings from the Literature Review and discusses their relevance and implications for urban arterials. Chapter II discusses the theoretical underpinnings of performance...