Active Transportation Reports

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has developed videos and training resources on bicyle and pedestrian safety for law enforcement. 

This guide, created through a contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is intended to give Safe Routes to School practitioners, teachers, school administrators and others the necessary background information to fully understand the positive benefits of teaching bicycle and pedestrian education in the classroom. 

The Safe Routes Partnership's 2011-2015 final Strategic Plan was adopted by our Steering Committee on November 3, 2010. A sincere thank you goes out to the nearly 1,000 people who were interviewed, completed a survey, attended our annual meeting and/or provided written comments on the draft strategic plan. 

This report scientifically reviews the literature on child pedestrian education and discusses possible child pedestrian safety programs that could be more effective in keeping child pedestrians safe.

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.