Traffic Related Resources for a City Engineer

I’m presenting “Transportation Engineering Tools for City Engineers” with Marc Culver (Roseville, MN City Engineer) this afternoon at the City Engineers Association of Minnesota annual meeting.  Here are some links we’ve put together for city engineers when they need to dive deeper into a specific topic.  Anything to add?

Very Helpful Resource for many of these topics, includes links to Best Practices for Peds and Bike Safety, Safety Strategies Best Practices and Policies, and Traffic Safety Fundamental Handbook:  http://www.dot.state.mn.us/stateaid/trafficsafety.html

Traffic Signals – Intersection Control

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/trafficeng/safety/ice/index.html

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roundabouts/

Pedestrian Crossing Resources:

www.Sharetheroadmn.org

FHWA-RD-01-075: Safety Effects of Marked vs. Unmarked Crosswalks at Uncontrolled Locations

http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/19000/19000/19031/PB2002104240.pdf

Mn/DOT Webpage on Pedestrians Issues

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/peds/

Mn/DOT Guidance for Installation of Pedestrian Crosswalks on MinnesotaState Highways

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/trafficeng/files/ped_guide.pdf

City of Edina Traffic Signs website including a Public Service Announcement video:

http://legacy.ci.edina.mn.us/Traffic/L4-19_TrafficSigns.htm

In Street Ped Crossing Sign Policy

http://legacy.ci.edina.mn.us/PDFs/2005%20in-street%20ped%20xwalk%20sign.pdf

Stop Signs:

City of Richfield Stop Sign Policy

http://71.6.142.67/revize/cityofrichfield/PublicWorks/stopsigns.htm

Traffic Calming:

City of Bloomington Traffic Calming Plan:

http://www.ci.bloomington.mn.us/cityhall/council/cpolicy/calmingdoc.pdf

City of Mankato:

http://www.mankato-mn.gov/upload/images/FeaturedArticles/Traffic%20Calming%20Program%20Guide.pdf

http://www.pps.org/reference/livememtraffic/

Great, comprehensive website detailing options:

http://trafficcalming.org/

Speed Limits:

Mn/DOT Speed Limits Resources Page

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/speed/

Traffic Signals:

NTOC National Traffic Signal Report Card

http://www.ite.org/reportcard/

FHWA Report on Recommended Traffic Signal Maintenance:

http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop09006/fhwahop09006.pdf

Travel Demand Management:

Mike Spack’s report on the effectiveness of TDM Plans

http://www.mikeontraffic.com/new-study-documenting-the-effectiveness-of-travel-demand-management-measures/

Site Plan Review:

Mike Spack Checklist – Included in free Toolkit

www.MikeOnTraffic.com

School Safety:

FHWA Website Related to Safe Routes to School

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/safe_routes_to_school/overview/

MnDOT Website Related to Safe Routes to School

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/saferoutes/

Mike Spack Guide for School Related Traffic Issues

http://spackconsulting.com/docs/traffic_safety_plans_for_schools.pdf

SafeRoutes.org – Great website covering the topic

http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/