Complete Streets Toolbox

"A blueprint for designing 21st century streets, the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide unveils the toolbox and the tactics cities use to make streets safer, more livable, and more economically vibrant."

"The purpose of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide is to provide cities with state-of-the-practice solutions that can help create complete streets that are safe and enjoyable for bicyclists."

"Developed for cities, by cities, the Guidelines for Regulating Shared Micromobility outlines best practices for cities and public entities regulating
and managing shared micromobility services on their streets."

"The Small Town and Rural Design Guide is an online design resource and idea book, intended to help small towns and rural communities support safe, comfortable, and active travel for people of all ages and abilities."

The AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities "provides information on the physical infrastructure needed to support bicycling."

This is the 4th Edition from 2012. The 5th edition was released in December 2024 and is available for purchase on the AASHTO website.

"Achieving Multimodal Networks: Applying Design Flexibility and Reducing Conflicts highlights ways that planners and designers can apply the design flexibility found in current national design guidance to address common roadway design challenges and barriers."

This guide offers best practices for planning and designing bike lanes on high speed roads with posted speed limits of 35 mph or higher, addressing the challenges these environments pose to bicyclists.

"In 2023, East West Gateway (EWG), in partnership with MoDOT St. Louis District staff, initiated a study of the region’s arterial roadways in order to develop a supplemental document to the current standard engineering guidance, MoDOT’s Engineering Policy Guide (EPG). The result is The Blueprint for Arterials, published in June 2024, to help better address safety and the complex array of users and needs on arterial roadways in developed communities."

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) created the Active Transportation Programs Design Guide to clarify treatments for local agencies in Washington State. The guide is a good example for treatments that improve the safety for people who walk, bike and roll. The guides includes examples and explanations for speed management treatments, crossing and intersection treatments, grade-separated treatments, illumination, ADA improvements, linear treatments for bicyclists and/ or pedestrians.