Analysis of the Shoulder Widening Need on the State Highway System

Résumé du livre

In many rural Texas areas, pedestrians and cyclists have limited trip options and so these travelers often use rural low-speed highways. If these corridors do not have adequate roadway shoulders available, the pedestrians and cyclists cannot travel on the shoulder and instead must occupy an active travel lane. Consequently, the overall objective of this project was to define the criteria for roadway shoulder suitability for pedestrians and bicycles, apply these criteria to Texas highways to determine candidate locations that merit shoulder improvements, identify high use or high demand locations, and develop a candidate list of potential target locations, coupled with the suitability criteria, to be incorporated into a Strategic Corridor Development Plan.