Active Transportation: Reports, Evaluations, and Toolkits
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. 

Report
Improving the Process

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.

Report
Dangerous by Design 2011

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

Report
Maximizing Walkability, Diversity and Equity in U.S. Schools

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

Toolkit, Case Study
Rural Walking in Massachusetts

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.

Report
Bicycling and Walking in the United States – Part II

 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.

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

Steps to a Walkable Community compilesmultidisciplinary tactics that readers can assemble into customstrategies designed for their community’s circumstances. The guidecontains tactics for building or rebuilding cities and suburbs in ways thatencourage walking.

Report
Guide For Reviewing Public Road Design and Bicycling Accommodations for Virginia Bicycling Advocates

The purpose of this guide is to help bicycle advocates review transportation projects to ensure that bicycle facilities are included inthe design. The construction, retrofit or expansion of a public road involves many steps by local, regional and state governmental agencies.

Report
Health Economic Assessment Tools for Walking and for Cycling

This document provides information about the methodology and a user guide for WHO's tool for economic assessment of the health effects of walking and cycling.

Toolkit, Case Study
Steps to a Walkable Community – Part IV

Part IV of the series "Steps to a Walkable Community: A Guide for Citizens, Planners, and Engineers."