This document provides links to research, resources, and guidance on designing for pedestrians and bicycles. National and Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) standards allow a range of flexibility in the design of facilities for walking and bicycling.

Active transportation is human-powered transportation that engages people in healthy physical activity while they travel from place to place. People walking, bicycling, using strollers, wheelchairs/mobility devices, skateboarding, and rollerblading are engaged in active transportation.

This guidance applies to all transportation facilities owned or maintained by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT). For projects on local roadways, localities should work with their corresponding local government, Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) or Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) to address how Active Transportation will be included on non-ODOT facilities.

You may choose to support Share the Road by purchasing the Share the Road license plates. Five dollars of the total plate cost is distributed to the highway safety fund to publish and distribute a booklet that instructs bicycle riders on the methods and procedures of riding bicycles on the roads and streets of this state in a confident, legal, and safe manner.