List of Contributions

Building bike-friendly communities takes the will and commitment of all involved. Bike infrastructure is insufficient if it is not supported by laws to protect vulnerable road users and knowledge and willingness to enforce laws by authorities charged with law enforcement. Bike infrastructure is also ...

What are some of the best practices you have seen to enhance safe bicycle mobility? There is a nice article on this topic in Civil Engineering Online from May of this year, " Need help designing a bike-friendly community? Start here." See link. ------------------------------ Mitch Winkler P.E.(inactive), ...

I see toll roads as simplify a manifestation of US culture, in broad generality, being self-absorbed and/or not having a distrust for government. By being self-absorbed, I mean nobody wants to pay for anything that would go to the greater good of society. Toll roads and special tax investment zones, ...

I like this line of thinking but worry that the two systems might be so different that experience transfer may be marginal. An approach might be to systematically list the design and lifecycle issues – including risks to be mitigated – between pipelines used to transport liquids or gas hydrocarbons and ...

Hi Oanh, I'm not familiar with research on this topic but can speak from the standpoint of someone who cycles on the road 3-4 times per week. Riding against traffic is flat out dangerous. The relative rate of closure provides little time to take evasive action if needed and turning creates an unsafe ...