Bicycle projects and studies

Guides

Wisconsin Bicycle Planning Guidance
This document provides guidelines for Metropolitan Planning Organizations and communities in planning and developing bicycle facilities.

Wisconsin Bicycle Facility Design Handbook - For your convenience, the Handbook is also available in six sections. This on-line version contains a number of slight changes and additions made since the print version was made available in 2004.

• Cover and Table of Contents
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Basic Roadway Improvements
• Chapter 3 - Bicycle Lanes
• Chapter 4 - Shared-use Paths
• Appendices and Index

Wisconsin Rural Bicycle Planning Guide

Studies and reports

Economic Impact of Bicycling in Wisconsin

Wisconsin Bicycle and Pedestrian Trail Use Study (2005)

Bicycle Crash Analysis for Wisconsin Using a Crash Typing Tool (PBCAT) and Geographic Information System (GIS)

• Summary
• Full report

Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Survey

• In August 1999, the Wisconsin Survey Research Laboratory completed a study about how many trips are made by walking and bicycling.

Plans

• Bicycle Transportation Plan 2020
• History of Bicycling in Wisconsin (This is an excerpt taken from the Wisconsin Bicycle Transportation Plan 2020)

Complete Streets

Complete Streets are roadways designed and operated to enable safe, convenient, and comfortable access and travel for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and public transport users of all ages and abilities are able to safely and comfortably move along and across a complete street.

• Frequently Asked Questions to Bicycle and Pedestrian State Statute 84.01 (35) (Updated December 2015)
  

Closures or detours

• 511 Wisconsin Construction Projects (State highway detours)