The Portland Safe Routes Program document outlines engineering tools to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists. It discusses conducting outreach, meetings, data collection and design to identify priority routes. Tools include speed bumps, raised crosswalks, curb extensions, refuge islands, beacons, signals, sidewalks and pathways, access management through one-way streets or closures, and bike parking. The overall goal is to focus on crossings and use engineering strategies to manage speed, improve crossing safety, and provide convenient routes and facilities for active transportation.

1. Portland Safe Routes Program
Engineering Tools

2. Process Overview
• Outreach
• First Meeting and Walkabout
• Investigation and Design
– Data Collection
– Pathway Identification
• Report
• Discussion/Implementation

3. First Meeting & Walkabout

4. Preliminary Preferred Routes
Focuses Attention to Crossings

5. Engineering Tools By Focus
• Speed Management
• Barrier Street Crossing Safety
• Corridor Facilities
• Congestion Management
• Convenience Improvements

6. Speed Management
Speed Bumps, Speed Tables

7. Raised Crosswalks

8. Speed Cushions/Offset Speed Tables
ER Friendly Bumps

9. Traffic Circles at Intersections

10. Electronic Warnings

11. Safer Crossings – Parking Clearances
Use of Space

12. Marked and Signed Crossings

13. Safer Crossings - Curb Extensions

14. Safer Crossings - Refuge Islands

15. Warning Beacons – Yellow
Standard Beacons
Rapid Flash Beacons

16. Hybrid Pedestrian Beacons
Former HAWK

17. Signals

18. LPI = Leading Pedestrian Intervals
Pedestrian Countdown Signal Heads
Pedestrian Signals

19. Bike Signals

20. Corridors and Pathways
On-Site

21. Curb Ramps

22. Temporary Gravel Sidewalks

23. Temporary Asphalt Sidewalks

24. Temporary Roadside Pathways

25. Permanent Sidewalk

26. Permanent Sidewalk

27. Permanent Sidewalk

28. New Connections

29. New Connections

30. Congestion Management

31. Review Bus Parking

32. Modify Parking Layout or Operation
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33. Manage Access: One-way Streets

34. Manage Access: One-way Streets
Report Sketch As Built

35. Manage Access: One-way Streets
Report Sketch As Built

36. Manage Access: Entry Blocked

37. Manage Access: Median Barriers
Side Streets are Right-In, Right-Out only.

38. Manage Access: Street Closures

39. Full Closure – Pocket Parks

40. Pocket Parks

41. Convenience: Bike Parking

42. Sheltered Bike Parking

43. Questions?
www.saferoutesportland.org
Scott Batson, PE
scott.batson@portlandoregon.gov