National Institute for Transportation and Communities

This project is a follow up to a highly successful previous NITC project and subsequent nationally distributed book, called “Rethinking Streets: An Evidence Based Guide to 25 Street Transformations. The success of the first book demonstrates a need for easy access to evidence-based transportation information that can be used by practitioners, community members, policy makers, educators, and researchers. This project is to produce a follow-up volume, but focus on streets redesigned to accommo... Read More

In a prior NITC project that ended in early 2019,we successfully built and deployed a hardware and software ‘product’, called ‘Bike Connect’, that allowed people on bike to give hands-free advance information to an upcoming traffic signal based on speed and direction of travel to increase the likelihood the signal would be green or be quicker to get to green upon arrival. In this new project, we propose scaling up this work in three ways: 1) deploying additional hardware to two additional va... Read More