Connect WPB wishes to supply our city's citizens, staff, and policy makers with a range of useful tools for improving where we live. These resources are linked below.
If you have any resources you believe should be included here, please send to [email protected]
West Palm Beach Traffic Calming Application
How to Ride Transit in Palm Beach County
Transportation Advocacy
- A Citizen’s Guide to Better Streets: How to engage your transportation agency (2008)
- Federal Highway Administration (FHWA): Proven Safety Countermeasures Filter Tool and Keyword Search
Transportation Safety/Calming
- A National Investigations on the Impacts of Lane Width on Traffic Safety (Johns Hopkins, 2023)
- Traffic Calming ePrimer (FHWA)
- Advisory Bike Lanes in North America (2017)
- FDOT Speed Management (2024)
City of West Palm Beach Plans
- Comprehensive Plan (2017)
- City Wide Bicycle Master Plan (2018)
- Downtown Mobility Plan (2018)
- Broadway Mixed Use District (BMUD) Land Use Analysis and Recommendations (2022)
- WPB Capital Improvement Projects Dashboard
- Downtown Walkability Analysis (2014, Jeff Speck)
FDOT Context Classification Guide and Story Maps
- Context Classification Guide (2020)
- Suburban Residential (C3R) Context Classification
- Urban General (C4) Context Classification
Urban Planning
- Building Cities Better with Brent Toderian (Video at Bottom)
- Navigating Main Streets as Places (2019)
- Farmers Markets as a Strategy to Improve Access to Healthy Food for Low-Income Families and Communities
- Parking Benefit Districts
- The Car-free Livability Programme: What is Car-Free City Life (City of Oslo, 2019)
- Who Pays for Roads (2015)
Pedestrian/Bicycle Planning
- Best Complete Streets Policies 2023
- FDOT: Comprehensive Study to Reduce Pedestrian Crashes in Florida (2015)
- Adults’ Self-reported Barriers and Enablers to Riding a Bike for Transport (2022)
- Gender Differences in the Barriers to and Enablers of Riding a Bike (2023)
- Essentials of Bike Parking: Selecting and installing bicycle parking that works (2015)
- We Were Wrong About Sharrows
Transit Planning
- Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide
- Bus Rapid Transit Service Design Guidelines (2007)
- Transforming Bus Stops Through Community Outreach (2019)
Housing
- Palm Beach County Affordable Housing Needs Assessment (2021)
- Palm Beach County Housing For All Plan (12/8/2023, yet to be adopted)
- Palm Beach County Housing Equity Study (2023)
- Pre-approved Housing Building Plans (Oct 2023)
- Planning Restrictions Harm Housing Supply (2020)
Vision Zero
- Palm Beach TPA Vision Zero Action Plan (2021)
- Optimizing Large Vehicles for Urban Environments (2018)
Placemaking
- Placemaking: What If We Built Our Cities Around Places? (2022)
- Book of Doing
- Activating Alleys for a Lively City
FDOT Design Manuals
- Design Manual (For state highways; 2023)
- Design Manual (For state highways; 2024)
- Greenbook (local roads not on the state highway system; 2018)
- Greenbook (local roads not on the state highway system; 2023 DRAFT)
- Drainage Manual (2016)