The Urban Street Design Guide charts the principles and practices of the nation’s foremost engineers, planners, and designers working in cities today. A blueprint for designing 21st century streets, the Guide unveils the toolbox and the tactics cities use to make streets safer, more livable, and more economically vibrant.

The elements that make up city streets, from sidewalks to travel lanes to transit stops, all vie for space within a limited right-of-way. Transportation planners and engineers can use this toolbox to optimize the benefits the community receives from its streets.

Pervious pavement effectively treats, detains, and infiltrates stormwater runoff where landscape-based strategies are restricted or less desired. Pervious pavements have multiple applications, including sidewalks, street furniture zones, and entire …

2016年5月2日 · This Updated Second Edition of the Street Design Manual infuses the document with a new emphasis on two critical principles, universal design and resiliency, and transmits the latest findings and standards on a broad range of street design elements and processes.

Sidewalks play a vital role in city life. As conduits for pedestrian movement and access, they enhance connectivity and promote walking. As public spaces, sidewalks serve as the front steps to the city, activating streets socially and economically. Safe, accessible, and well-maintained sidewalks are a fundamental and necessary investment for cities, and have been found…

Whatever the character of your main street, this handbook recognizes that good highways and main streets are both critical to the health of the state’s commu-nities. It describes the many tools avail-able to identify the problems and figure out good solutions for …

The corner radius may be a simple or a complex curve and depends primarily on the presence of on-street parking, bike lanes, the number of travel lanes, medians, and traffic control devices.

While the standards described here are for public City streets, they are also recommended for application to private streets in new subdivisions, since the various design principles for moving traffic, providing access, and providing maintainable street pavements are pertinent to all streets.

Bike lanes are typically on the right side of the street, between the adjacent travel lane and curb, road edge, or parking lane. This facility type may be located on the left side when installed on one-way streets, or may be buffered if space permits.

Pedestrians are especially sensitive to minor shifts in grade and geometry, detours, and the quality of sidewalk materials and street lighting. Crosswalk design has the potential to both shape and respond to pedestrian behaviors and demands, while guiding people toward the …