Active Transportation: Reports, Evaluations, and Toolkits
Report, Case Study
Creating Healthy Regional Transportation Plans

This guide is intended to help demystify regional transportation plans (RTPs), explain key components and requirements, identify ways to incorporate health‐promoting strategies into RTPs, and showcase short case studies of improving community health through RTPs.

Report
Active Transportation Beyond Urban Centers

This report describes trends and policy implications for active transportation in rural communities.

Report
Economic Value of Walkability

This paper describes ways to evaluate the value of walking (the activity) and walkability (the quality of walking conditions, including safety, comfort and convenience). 

Toolkit
Navigating MAP-21

This toolkit provides materials that state advocacy organizations can use to ensure state
Departments of Transportation (DOTs) take full advantage of the potential bicycling and
walking funding in MAP-21.

Report
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act

This document provides a full copy of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act. (SAFE-TEA)

Report
The Transportation Prescription

This report describes relationships between transportation policies and plans and health and potential to implement policies that make transportation more healthy, green, safe, accessible and affordable.

Report
Strategic Highway Safety Plans

Each state DOT is required to develop a data-driven Strategic Highway Safety Plan for programming their Highway Safety Improvement fund. Some of this funding can be spent on bicycle and pedestrian safety for school children.

Toolkit, Report, Case Study
Steps to a Walkable Community – Part II

Steps to a Walkable Community compilesmultidisciplinary tactics that readers can assemble into customstrategies designed for their community’s circumstances. 

Evaluation, Report
Bicycling and Walking in the United States – Part I

This report offers more precise benchmarks and recommendations for advocates and government officials so that they have the data they need to improve bicycling and walking in the United States and eventually all of North America.

Report
Safe Routes to Parks:

This report explores the obstacles limiting walkability to parks and identify the essential elements of a safe route to a park.