The National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety is a call to action for policy makers, educators, advocates, transportation experts, health and injury professionals, and others with an interest in safe bicycling. The strategies encompassed in the document are those that, over the next three to five years, are capable of enhancing bicycle safety for riders of all ages. The specific goals and strategies are summarized below.

Goal #1 Motorists Will Share the Road (click here for full description)

• Create a coordinated "Share the Road" public education campaign that can be adapted at the state and local levels.
• Amend the motor vehicle code to give precedence to bicyclists in the absence of overriding traffic rules.
• Include components on "safe bicycling" and "sharing the road" in driver education programs.

• Create a national "Ride Safely" marketing campaign targeting bicycle riders.
• Encourage statewide bicycle safety conferences to promote the National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety.
• Expand school-based and community-based programs that teach bicycle safety to children and adult bicyclists.
• Educate community professionals on effective ways to promote safe bicycling.
• Motivate decision makers at all levels to adopt policies that promote safe bicycling.

• Create a national bicycle helmet safety campaign.
• Create tools to promote and increase bicycle helmet use that can be adapted for use at the state and local levels.
• Assist states and communities that decide to address bicycle helmet use through state and local laws and enforcement.

• Improve the collection and quality of data concerning bicycle crash incidents, including both traffic and non-traffic sites.
• Create tools that help law enforcement officers enforce bicycle-safety traffic laws aimed at bicyclists and motorists.
• Promote the most promising enforcement efforts at those local sites where they are most likely to be effective.
• Encourage the court system to follow through on bicycle safety enforcement by imposing meaningful penalties for both motorist and bicyclist violations.

Goal #5 Roads and Paths Will Safely Accomodate Bicyclists (click here for full description)

• Document and evaluate the safety and effectiveness of facility design options.
• Improve 100,000 miles of roadways that serve everyday travel by providing striped bicycle lanes and other safe bicycling facilities.
• Train professionals responsible for the planning, design, and operation of the transportation system to better consider and accommodate bicycle travel.