Research/Policy
The Slow Roads Save Lives campaign has big goals, such as reframing how roads are designed to place safety and people first, and a simple idea at its core —…
Slow Roads Save Lives. It’s simple physics. But to fully realize the lifesaving power of slower roads, it will take more than doing the math. We must reframe how speed…
People biking should get home safely, every time. But bicyclist deaths are at a 45-year high. The crisis of traffic violence on our roads needs solutions. One of those is…
When the League of American Bicyclists was founded in 1880, one of our biggest campaigns and achievements was the Good Roads Movement. In 1889, Colonel Albert Pope of the then…
NHTSA’s mission is to “save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement.” Yet people who bike and other…
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. (E.T.) on “Self-Driving…
For more than a decade, the League of American Bicyclists and other safety groups fiercely advocated for a “fair share for safety” in federal funding. We wanted to ensure that…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently released a detailed overview on the deadliness of our roadways in 2021, the most recent year for which complete statistics are now available.…
In the nascent autonomous vehicle (AV) industry, ensuring those vehicles interact safely with bicyclists must be a core competency. It’s why the League worked to develop guidelines for safe AV-cyclist…
Do you know what cycling-related bills are being debated in your state legislature? We reviewed some of the good, bad, and ugly bills in 2023.