Bike Tulane - Research

Research
Assessments, programs and proposals for creating a bicycle friendly community

Higher Education: Bicycle Safety for Colleges and Universities An almost 40 page guide to creating a bicycle safety education program at your university. Created by the Bike.Tulane team and the New Orleans Regional Planning Commission, with funding from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (August 2004)

Bicycle Transportation Improvement Recommendations By Dan Jatres. Recommendations for improving bicycle circulation, parking and storage on Tulane University's uptown campus. (May 2004)

Driving with Everyone: A Motorist's Guide To Sharing the Road with Bicycles By Adam Davidson. This brochure is distributed with campus parking permits. In word format so you can adapt for your campus. (August 2003)

Forms for Bicycle Behavior Observations
If you would like to conduct the assessement of bicycle behavior described in our toolkit Higher Education, you can download these forms and adapt for your own use. There's a basic template (excel)and instructions for observers (word). There's also a Data cover sheet to help you organize results. (November 2002)

Online Tulane Bike/Drive Survey By Audrey Warren and Adam Davidson. Over 700 Tulanians answered our questions about bicycle safety and driving near bicyclists. Many wrote comments on the cycling conditions on campus and in the city. Read about the survey or view the results. Click here to take the survey yourself. (August 2003)

"Mapping Bicycle Resources" By Denice Warrren and Allison Plyer. Our friends at the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center describe the theory behind creating the bicycle resource map (August 2003)

Draft Chapters, New Orleans Regional Bicycle Master Plan. By Alexandra Cervenka, Adam Davidson, Jeff Hammond, Dan Jatres, Alfred Wang and Elizabeth Davey. Bicycle Education and Training • Law Enforcement Practices • Bicycle Route Criteria • Orleans Parish Bicycle Crash Data, 1999-2001 These draft chapters were researched and written by a student team working as consultants for the New Orleans Regional Planning Commission (RPC). The Bicycle Master Plan will provide a guide for public officials and citizens who want to make the New Orleans region more bicycle friendly. (2002-2003)

"Cycling in Committee" By Adam Davidson. Presented at the Greening the Campus V conference at Ball State University, Adam describes how tapping into the larger Tulane community helped us create a stronger bicycle safety outreach program. (September 2003)