Guides & Publications

This landmark guide offers technical details to inform street design that prioritizes pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders in cities around the world.

This guide captures international best practices, strategies, programs, and policies that global cities have used to design spaces that allow kids to utilize cities’ most abundant asset – streets.

This guide provides direction on managing speeds in cities, outlines key design parameters and strategies to achieve safe speeds, showcases inspirational transformations, highlights case studies from around the world, and offers a valuable set of tools to help cities create safer, more livable streets for everyone.

Drawing from the success of the Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure (BICI) and GDCI’s decade of experience implementing street transformation projects to improve road safety, access, and mobility choices, How to Implement Cycling Infrastructure outlines the steps from initial site selection, to designing, planning, and implementing cycling infrastructure with a focus on community-driven designs that ensure the safety and comfort of all.

The handbook serves as a global resource, and features case studies from the 10 selected BICI cities and other inspiring global best practices, focusing on the full process of implementing cycling infrastructure.  It also provides resources and frameworks to help cities overcome the most common challenges and build support where they face significant pushback.

This handbook outlines the steps from initial site selection to planning, implementing, and maintaining pop-up or interim street transformations with a focus on community-driven street designs.

This handbook offers cities a new way of measuring, evaluating, and communicating the impact of pop-up and interim projects related to road safety and its co-benefits.

This handbook offers strategies and tools for cities to engage children in the street design process, demonstrating how their perspectives can create streets that are safer, more inclusive, and more enjoyable for all ages.

This handbook provides specialized guidance on evaluating street transformations near schools to measure impact, gather stories, and champion safer, healthier, and more joyful streets for kids.

This resource compiles emerging practices from cities worldwide and includes adaptable information on implementing COVID-19 rapid-response and recovery street design treatments.