Designing for Safe Mobility

A Holistic, User-Centric Approach to Roadway Design

KYTC’s Designing for Safe Mobility website houses critical knowledge roadway designers need to plan and design facilities that deliver on the promise of providing safe and efficient mobility for all users. Along with short primers on topics that inform contemporary design best practices, users can search content found in Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems (NCRHP Report 600). The site will be refreshed often so it remains a trusted, up-do-date resource for designing safe, context-adapted facilities.

Road Design Primers
Designing for Safe Mobility Checklist

Human Factors Guidelines Database

30.10 Countermeasures for Improving Accessibility for Vision-Impaired Pedestrians at Roundabouts

30.12 Roundabout Lighting

Address Visual Traps with Pavement Markings

TEST – Project category page

Database Search Filter

10.8 Sight Distance at Left-Skewed Intersections

10.6 Left-Turn Lanes at Non-Signalized Intersections

10.2 Acceptable Gap Distance

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SSA Tools

29.2 Signals and Signal Timing for Bicycles at Intersections

29.4 Markings for Bicycles at Intersections

29.6 Bicycle Lanes

29.8 Separated Bicycle Lanes

29.10 Contraflow Bicycle Lanes

29.12 Shared Use Lanes

29.14 Shared Bus – Bicycle Lanes

29.16 Mitigating Heavy Vehicle Conflicts with Bicycles

Back-In Angle Parking

Buffered Bike Lanes

Cable Median Barriers

Centerline Buffers

Centerline Turn Hardening

Colored Pavement

Convert Low-Volume Intersections from TWSC to AWSC

Curve Widening

Enhanced Signing

Evaluate and Implement Road Reconfigurations

Flashing Yellow Right Turns

Friction Surface Treatments

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CONTACT:

Jill Asher

Research Engineer 

jill.asher@uky.edu