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Report
An Overview for Public Health Advocates
This fact sheet, created in collaboration with TransForm, discusses the important link between transportation planning and health, describes the key players and processes of local and regional transportation planning, and suggests ways to advocate effectively for healthier transportation policies.
Fact Sheet, Report, Model Policy
This report summarizes laws addressing joint use from each state.
By Michelle Lieberman, Molly O’Reilly and Katharine Bierce
Report, Case Study
Strategies to Enhance Schools and Communities
This resource provides detailed information about joint use, lessons learned from case studies, and recommendations for establishing joint use.
Late in the evening of June 9, as part of the House consideration of the transportation appropriations bill, Rep.
Fact Sheet
Creating Opportunities for Physical Activity
This brief examines characteristics of joint use agreements that were in effect during the 2009-2010 school year among a national sample of 157 public school districts.
This guest blog post was written by our research adviser, Christina Galardi.
First, let’s start with a pop quiz to get your brain working - I’ll give the answers at the end.
Fact Sheet
How School Locations Can Make Students Healthier and Communities Stronger
Locating schools within communities can mean healthier students bymaking it easier for students to walk and bike to school, and to use schoolplaygrounds and facilities outside of school hours.
A new information brief, issued today by the National Center for Safe Routes to School and written by the Safe Routes Partnership, demonstrates how regional transportation planning authorities (or MPOs) can advance Safe Routes to School priorities using the relatively new Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP).
Report
This report describes a study of barriers to bicycling among low-income communities and communities of color and opportunities to increase bicycling among these communities.
The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee has set its consideration of the transportation bill for Thursday, October 22. This is coming in just under the wire, as the current transportation law expires at the end of October. Congress will still have to do an extension of current law to allow the House to complete its work and then come to agreement with the Senate -- hopefully by mid-December. (Update 10/22/15: The committee completed consideration of the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act today. An amendment offered by Reps.
Toolkit, Report
Tips and Tools for Community Change
This document provides a list of resources, steps and processes for creating healthy food and physical activity environments.
We have been advocating together for three years for a new transportation bill that supports Safe Routes to School, walking and bicycling. Now that Congress has passed the FAST Act and locked in funding for the Transportation Alternatives Program (or as it is now also known the STP Setaside), what should advocates be focusing on?
Fact Sheet
The purpose of the “Quick Guide” is to orient potential usersof health impact assessment (HIA) who are working to createhealthier living environments.
The City of Pryor Creek, Oklahoma recently became the first city in the state to approve a Complete Streets ordinance with the unanimous approval of Ordinance No. 2016-01.
When we talk about federal transportation dollars in this space, we most often focus on the Transportation Alternatives Program, since it has a strong focus on funding Safe Routes to School programs and bicycling and walking infrastructure.
In 1935, as part of the New Deal, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration moved 203 Midwestern families from their economically depressed farms to form the Matanuska Colony in what is now Palmer, Alaska. These agricultural families migrated from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan to the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, approximately 45 miles north of Anchorage, 24 years before Alaska became a state. With 40 acres allocated per family, these farming colonists cultivated the land into what is now the heart of Alaska’s agricultural production.
This blog post is authored by Safe Routes Partnership research advisor, Stephanie Tepperberg.