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The following section provides resources identified as key components for implementing Complete Streets in New Jersey and best practice guidance to be applied on various aspects of accommodation selection and design.

Checklists

• CD Complete Streets Checklist for Limited and Full Scope Projects
• Full Scope PE Complete Streets Checklist
• Limited Scope FD Complete Streets Checklist

Guidance and Design

The following State and national resources provide guidance on Complete Streets principles and design. The current adopted standards shall always take precedence.

State Guidance:

• NJDOT Roadway Design Manual: The manual presents the current Department guidelines pertaining to roadway design on the State Highway system. It provides a means of developing uniformity and safety in the design of a roadway system consistent with the needs of the motoring and non-motoring users.


• New Jersey Complete Streets Design Guide: The New Jersey Complete Streets Design Guide is a planning document that presents tools and methodologies for designing Complete Streets in a variety of settings, with attention to the specific needs of each community.


• NJDOT Complete Streets Implementation Guide - Comprehensive Solutions Handbook (CS Handbook): The CS Handbook presents procedures for implementing Complete Streets across all project types, informs practitioners of possible constraints, the range of available solutions, and guidance on how to best implement the CS Policy.


• NJDOT Complete Streets Standard Operating Procedure (SOP): The SOP details the process for Complete Streets compliance in the Full Scope and Limited Scope CD Phases and demonstrates the process for Complete Streets compliance in the PE Phase (Full Scope Project) or FD Phase (Limited Scope Project).


• Policy 705 - Accommodating Pedestrian and Bicycle Traffic During Construction: The policy provides safe access for bicycle and pedestrian traffic during the construction phase of NJDOT's capital improvement projects.

National Guidance:

• AASHTO Guide for the Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities: This document provides guidance on the planning, design, and operation of pedestrian facilities along and across streets and highways. Specifically, the guide focuses on identifying effective and appropriate measures for accommodating pedestrians on public rights-of-way, which vary among roadway and facility types.


• AASHTO A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets: This document incorporates recent research that provides insight into the effect of specific geometric design elements of roads and streets for all transportation modes. It also introduces the consideration of five specific context classifications as an element of the geometric design process and emphasizes the consideration of multimodal needs in design.


• AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities: This guide provides information on how to accommodate bicycle travel and operations in most riding environments. It is intended to present sound guidelines that result in facilities that meet the needs of bicyclists and other highway users. Sufficient flexibility is permitted to encourage designs that are sensitive to local context and incorporate the needs of bicyclists, pedestrians, and motorists.


• ITE Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach: This resource provides guidance for the design of walkable urban thoroughfares in places that currently support walking and in places where the community desires to provide a more walkable thoroughfare, and the context to support them in the future.


• NACTO Transit Street Design Guide: This document provides design guidance for the development of transit facilities on city streets, and for the design and engineering of city streets to prioritize transit, improve transit service quality, and support other goals related to transit. The guide is based on other design guidance, as well as city case studies, best practices in urban environments, research and evaluation of existing designs, and professional consensus.


• NACTO Urban Street Design Guide: A blueprint for designing 21st century streets, this guide unveils the toolbox, and the tactics cities use to make streets safer, more livable, and more economically vibrant. It outlines both a clear vision for complete streets and a basic road map for how to bring them to fruition.


• NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide: The purpose of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide (part of the Cities for Cycling initiative) is to provide cities with state-of-the-practice solutions that can help create complete streets that are safe and enjoyable for bicyclists.


• FHWA Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices: The MUTCD defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public travel.


• FHWA Achieving Multimodal Networks: Applying Design Flexibility and Reducing Conflict: This publication is intended to be a resource for practitioners seeking to build multimodal transportation networks. The document highlights ways that planners and designers can apply the design flexibility found in current national design guidance to address common roadway design challenges and barriers. It focuses on reducing multimodal conflicts and achieving connected networks so that walking and bicycling are safe, comfortable, and attractive options for people of all ages and abilities.


• FHWA Pedestrian Safety Guide and Countermeasure Selection System: This resource is intended to provide practitioners with the latest information available for improving the safety and mobility of those who walk. The online tools provide the user with a list of possible engineering, education, or enforcement treatments to improve pedestrian safety and/or mobility based on user input about a specific location.


• FHWA Bicycle Safety Guide and Countermeasure Selection System: This resource is intended to provide practitioners with the latest information available for improving the safety and mobility of those who bike. The online tools provide the user with a list of possible engineering, education, or enforcement treatments to improve bicycle safety and/or mobility based on user input about a specific location.


• FHWA Complete Streets Transformations: Six Scenarios to Transform Arterials Using a Complete Streets Implementation Strategy: This document provides examples of how to apply a Complete Streets Implementation Strategy to transform arterials that pose significant safety, connectivity, and equity challenges. It provides six hypothetical scenarios of how common arterial corridor configurations can be transformed to accommodate the needs of different users by implementing Complete Streets. .