Innovative Pavement Markings to Facilitate Bicycle Travel
The City of Charlottesville seeks to install experimental treatments (i.e., pavement markings), including bike boxes and two-stage turn-queue boxes, to determine if they improve conditions for bicyclists without negatively affecting safety at the intersection of University Avenue and Rugby Road. This is a problematic location for cyclists approaching the University of Virginia's main campus. The Virginia Department of Transportation, through its Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research, will provide the city with research assistance for these experimental markings to satisfy the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) required experimentation process. This includes data collection and analysis, progress reports and a final report to FHWA. This project will produce a summary of "lessons learned" regarding how best to deploy such innovative markings, which could be valuable to other Virginia localities seeking to accommodate bicycling.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $88358.00
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Contract Numbers:
105221
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Sponsor Organizations:
Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research
530 Edgemont Road
Charlottesville, VA United States 22903 -
Performing Organizations:
Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research
530 Edgemont Road
Charlottesville, VA United States 22903 -
Principal Investigators:
Ohlms, Peter
- Start Date: 20131202
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20180131
- Source Data: RiP Project 35811
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycle travel; Cyclists; Data collection; Road markings; Traffic safety
- Candidate Terms: Bicycle boxes (Intersection element)
- Identifier Terms: University of Virginia
- Geographic Terms: Charlottesville (Virginia)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01572417
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Virginia Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 105221
- Files: RiP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Aug 7 2015 1:01AM