Guides and Manuals
On this page:
• Street Design Guides
• Green Streets / Sustainable Streets
• Traffic Calming
• Traffic Speeds
• Traffic Safety
Street Design Guides
National Association of City Transportation Officials
• Urban Street Design Guide
• Urban Bikeway Design Guide (3rd ed., 2025)
• Urban Street Stormwater Guide (online version coming soon)
• Streets for Pandemic Response & Recovery
Federal Highway Administration
• Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks
• Small Town and Rural Design Guide (online design resource and idea site)
• Proven Safety Countermeasures
• Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning, Program, and Project Development Guidance (May 2023)
• Alternate Roadway Design Publications Recognized by FHWA […] (updated January 2025)
Green Streets / Sustainable Streets
Urban Street Stormwater Guide, NACTO (online version coming soon)
Vermont Green Streets Guide, 2018
City of Philadelphia Green Streets Design Manual, 2014
Traffic Calming
Federal Highway Administration, Traffic Calming ePrimer
Institute of Transportation Engineers, Traffic Calming Measures
MassDOT, Project Development & Design Guide, Speed Management
Project for Public Spaces, Traffic Calming 101
Traffic Speeds
National Association of City Transportation Officials
• City Limits: Setting Safe Speed Limits on Urban Streets
Massachusetts
• Procedures for Speed Zoning on State Highways and Municipal Roads, MassDOT, updated 2021
• MassDOT Safe Speeds website: https://www.mass.gov/safe-speeds
• Massachusetts law on designating 20 mph safety zones: G.L. Chapter 90, Section 18B
• Speed limits in Cambridge (including safety zones): Speed Limits in Cambridge
Newburyport Livable Streets 