Summary of Patricia Delhomme's Road Safety Campaign
As mentioned in the previous blog post, statistical analysis of "effective" traffic safety campaigns is limited to none. Mostly, this is...
Analyzing "Best Practices White Paper: Road User Behavior Change Campaigns"
Seattle, Washington is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of bike riders traveling the city. As such, there has been increased...
"Street Fights" Justification for Realignment of Streets
In Janette Sadik-Khan's novel "Street Fight," she suggests radical changes in our roads infrastructure that could alter the way our...
Summary of "'Share the Road' Signs Don’t Work"
In an article from Streets Blog USA, author Tanya Snyder explains how Delaware recently stopped using the classic "Share The Road" sign,...
Current Infrastructure v. Advisory Bike Lanes
Our current road systems are under strict scrutiny as biking is becoming a more prevalent activity in the U.S., particularly in many...
MVA vs. DMV Rules and Language
In both Maryland and Virginia, their departments of motor vehicles exclusively addresses bicycles and road safety. However, the two...
Wrap Up of Risk and Perception of Cars, Bicyclists, and Pedestrians
After reading through the previous articles and writing several blog posts about how our society perceives risk, particularly in...
Who Shapes the Conversation About Bicyclists and Cars?
The blog site People for Bikes released an article called "How Smart Language Helped End Seattle's Paralyzing Bikelash," which describes...
Summary of "Don’t make bicyclists more visible. Make drivers stop hitting them."
The article "Don’t make bicyclists more visible. Make drivers stop hitting them," from The Washington Post explains how roads have been...
Summary of "Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics, and Science: Surveying the Risk-Assessment Battlefie
Paul Slovic's research from 1999 on "Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics, and Science: Surveying the Risk-Assessment Battlefield," reveals the...
