AASHTO’s Committee on Planning, through its Multimodal Surface Transportation Planning Task Force, works with Adventure Cycling to maintain and update the broader USBRS National Corridor Plan that identifies corridors for future bike routes. The USBRS is a cornerstone of Adventure Cycling’s work as a national nonprofit dedicated to inspiring, empowering and connecting people to bicycle travel.

AASHTO’s Tymon explained in comments made during the virtual signing ceremony that the “creation of a national bike route network mirrors that of the national interstate system.”

He added that AASHTO’s partnership with the Adventure Cycling Association “has been a huge benefit to this project,” noting it “has helped educate state DOTs about route options, develop maps and promotion materials, and provide the valuable groundwork needed to identify and publicize the bike routes to the bicycle community.”