Publication Details

Evaluation of shared-use facilities for bicycles and motor vehicles in Florida

Type: Paper

Subtype: Executive summary

Author(s): Harkey, David L.; Stewart, J. Richard

Publisher: UNC Highway Safety Research Center

Publication Date: 1996

Address: Chapel Hill, NC

Abstract: The Florida Department of Transportation (FLDOT) has a variety of shared-use facilities for bicycles and motor vehicles in place throughout the State. Facility types range from roadways with wide curb lanes to those with bicycle lanes or paved shoulders. The missing element from the FLDOT design guidelines, as well as other documents suggesting specific geometic dsigns, are results indicating which types of facilities provide the greatest benefit to bicyclists and motorists by making it more comfortable for both modes, where comfort is defined as reducing unpredictable or potentially unsafe movements by either motorists or bicyclists and minimizing the risk of a conflict or crash. This research effort was undertaken to develop such results.