- Better Bike Corridors: Better Bike Corridors is a Go Boston 2030 initiative that calls for the redesigning and rebuilding or reallocating space on streets to include protected and low-stress bicycling facilities. These projects will aspire to make bicycling a safe, comfortable, and convenient choice for more of Boston’s residents and visitors. Better bike lanes go beyond traditional bike lanes, which are painted on the street between moving and parked cars. The city will pursue more priority routes with bike lanes that are separated from moving vehicles and on neighborhood streets that are retrofitted to slow traffic. (Source: Go Boston 2030 Vision and Action Plan, page 152)
- Congestion pricing: a way of harnessing the power of the market to reduce traffic congestion by shifting discretionary rush hour highway travel to other transportation modes or to off-peak periods. There are several types of pricing strategies, including High Occupancy Toll lanes, variable tolls on roads and bridges, and variable or fixed charges to drive within or into a congested area within a city (Source: Federal Highway Administration)
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Curb extension: Curb extensions visually and physically narrow the roadway, creating safer and shorter crossings for pedestrians while increasing the available space for street furniture, benches, plantings, and street trees. They may be implemented on downtown, neighborhood, and residential streets, large and small. (Source: National Association of City Transportation Officials)
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Design speed: Design speed is a selected speed used to determine the various geometric features of the roadway. (Source: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials)
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Dynamic parking meter pricing: Parking meter rates change based on demand. Typically with dynamic pricing, rates increase when most meters are in use and then decrease when more meters are available.
- National Transportation Safety Board Aims to Reduce Speeding-Related Crashes, July 25, 2017: "The recommendations to the states—to remove barriers to the use of automated speed enforcement—are based on the findings that it is an effective but underused countermeasure.” (https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/PR20170725b.aspx)
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Neighborhood Slow Streets: a new approach to traffic calming requests in Boston. We aim to reduce the number and severity of crashes on residential streets, lessen the impacts of cut-through traffic, and add to the quality of life in our neighborhoods. Each year, residents, neighborhood associations, and other community-based organizations will be able to apply for traffic calming in a specific neighborhood. Selected neighborhoods will work with the Boston Transportation Department and Public Works Department to plan and implement their Neighborhood Slow Streets project. (Source: https://www.boston.gov/departments/transportation/neighborhood-slow-streets)
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Neighborway: Neighborways are residential streets designed for low volumes and speeds for auto traffic, where children can play and bicycle, and people walking and using mobility assistive devices are given priority. They are usually one, sometimes two blocks away from major streets and provide extended connections between neighborhoods, schools, squares, and parks. (Source: http://www.somervillestreets.com/)
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Protected bike lane: bikeways that are at street level and use a variety of methods for physical protection from passing traffic. May be combined with a parking lane, planters, curbs, or another barrier between the bike lane and the motor vehicle travel lane. (Source: National Association of City Transportation Officials)
- Rutherford Avenue: For more context about this project, please visit: http://www.rcic-charlestown.org/planning-process.html
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Side guard: Truck side guards are vehicle-based safety devices designed to keep pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists from being run over by a large truck’s rear wheels in a side-impact collision. (Source: National Association of City Transportation Officials)
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Traffic calming measure: uses physical design to improve safety for people walking, using mobility assistive devices, biking, and driving.
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Vision Zero: Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all. First implemented in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero has proved successful across Europe — and now it’s gaining momentum in major American cities. (Source: http://visionzeronetwork.org/about/what-is-vision-zero/)