Tag: Bicycles

New Research Indicates Anti-Drunk Driving Efforts Should Include Bicyclist and Pedestrians

New Research Indicates Anti-Drunk Driving Efforts Should Include Bicyclist and Pedestrians

  • April 13th, 2017

With Pedestrian Deaths Surging in 2016, Now is the Time for Action Statement for attribution to Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) Executive Director Jonathan Adkins WASHINGTON, D.C. – State Highway Safety Offices and their partners should broaden their anti-drunk driving campaigns to encourage bicyclists and pedestrians to consider safer transportation alternatives after heavy drinking. As the Insurance […]

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How Bike Helmet Laws Do More Harm than Good

  • April 5th, 2017

Bike-share programs have proved hugely popular in hundreds of cities around the world—but not in Australia. While bikes in the London and New York systems see three to six trips a day each, their unloved peers in Melbourne are lucky to be used once. One study declared Brisbane’s system to be the least popular in […]

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The Self-Driving Car’s Bicycle Problem

  • January 31st, 2017

Robotic cars are great at monitoring other cars, and they’re getting better at noticing pedestrians, squirrels, and birds. The main challenge, though, is posed by the lightest, quietest, swerviest vehicles on the road. “Bicycles are probably the most difficult detection problem that autonomous vehicle systems face,” says UC Berkeley research engineer Steven Shladover. Nuno Vasconcelos, […]

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Traffic Safety Facts: Bicyclists

  • July 12th, 2016

Pedal-cyclists, as defined for this fact sheet, are bicyclists and other cyclists including riders of two wheel, non-motorized vehicles; tricycles; and unicycles powered solely by pedals. A traffic crash is defined as an incident that involved one or more motor vehicles where at least one vehicle was in transport and the crash originated on a […]

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How FHWA is Making Biking Safer

  • January 12th, 2015

See how our Federal Highway Administration and its partners collaborate to make biking and walking safer, affordable, more accessible, and an integral part of livable communities across America.

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