Active Transportation Reports

Active Transportation: Reports, Evaluations, and Toolkits
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
New Jersey Complete Streets Toolkit

This document provides guidance for implementing and evaluating Complete Streets.

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. 

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.