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Enhancing Walking and Biking Safety: A Comprehensive Community Approach

This publication outlines a comprehensive approach - the 5 E's (Engineering, Education, Enforcement, Encouragement, and Evaluation) - to promote walking and biking safety. It includes strategies for collaborating with stakeholders, educational initiatives, enforcement practices, encouragement strategies, and program evaluation techniques. The lesson also highlights the importance of engaging with stakeholders such as public works, police, school districts, public health agencies, cyclists, and pedestrians. Education strategies focus on skills development for children, adult safety, motorist awareness, and targeted safety messages. Enforcement strategies cover laws, violator practices, bicycle theft reduction, and assaults prevention. Encouragement strategies include promoting healthy lifestyles, special events, targeted promotion, and recreation programs. Program evaluation emphasizes continuous feedback, implementation, evaluation, improvement, and demonstrating the program's benefits. The summary emphasizes the effectiveness of campaigns related to education, enforcement, and encouragement in increasing walking and biking activities, with the importance of conducting evaluations to measure impact.

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Enhancing Walking and Biking Safety: A Comprehensive Community Approach

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  1. Publication No. FHWA-HRT-05-132 Comprehensive Approach:The 5 E’s Lesson 24

  2. Lesson Outline • Engineering practices. • Covered in previous lessons. • Education strategies. • Enforcement practices. • Encouragement strategies. • Program evaluation.

  3. Comprehensive Approach • Collaborate with variety of stakeholders: • Public works. • Police. • School district. • Public health. • General public. • Bicyclists and pedestrians. • Etc.…

  4. Education Strategies • Walking and biking skills for children. • Adult bicycle and pedestrian safety. • Motorist awareness. • Targeted safety messages.

  5. Enforcement Strategies • Enforce pedestrian/bike laws. • Review/modify existing laws. • Review/modify young violator practices.

  6. Enforcement Strategies • Reduce bicycle theft. • Reduce assaults on pedestrians and bicyclists. • Implement police bicycle patrols.

  7. Encouragement Strategies • Market as a healthy lifestyle. • Promote through special events (bike-to-work day). • Inform target audiences. • Include walking and biking in local recreation programs.

  8. Program Evaluation • Continuous feedback: • Implement. • Evaluate. • Improve. • Demonstrate benefits of program: • Increase in walking/bicycling. • Decrease in congestion. • User satisfaction.

  9. Lesson Summary • Campaigns related to education, enforcement, and encouragement can be effective means for increasing walking and bicycling. • Evaluation proves that you are making a difference.

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