Active Transportation Reports

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.

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.

This document provides guidance for implementing and evaluating Complete Streets.

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.

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

This report provides models for using statewide campaigns to use policies and processes to impact the flow of federal funds to biking and walking projects and programs.

Transportation for America wrote the report to highligh strategies and investment opportunities to preventable pedestrian deaths.

This summary document, drawn from a national dialogue among leaders in health andpublic education, with accompanying research, answers this question in the affirmative.

This report provides an introduction to different types of walking facilities that can be constructedin rural areas. It includes case studies of a number of communities building creative and cost-effective walking facilities.

 As the project progresses, it will offer 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.