Active Transportation Resources
Active Living Resource Center
This Web site provides policy-makers with resources and tools to help them incorporate walking and bicycling into their communities. The Active Living Resource Center operates with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
http://www.activelivingresources.org/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, KIDSWALK-to-School Program
This Web site provides information about KIDSWALK-to-School, a community-based program to promote regular physical activity by encouraging students to walk to and from school in groups accompanied by adults. The program emphasizes community partnerships with schools, parent-teacher organizations, local businesses and other groups to promote areas that are conducive to walking or bicycling.
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/Dnpa/kidswalk
Council of State Governments, Community Design for Active Living, Talking Points
These talking points highlight why state legislators should be concerned about the impact of community design on residents’ mental and physical health. The document also encourages the use of , which allow policy-makers to evaluate design projects and policies in terms of their health implications. can provide policy-makers with findings that help strengthen local partnerships, reduce health disparities and encourage public participation in the community design process.
www.healthystates.csg.org/NR/rdonlyres/B30AFBC3-5428-4F2D-B980-C961E4EE2093/0/HealthyCommunityLiving_screen.pdf
Local Government Commission, Community Design, Active Living
This online resource provides community design tools and information for local elected officials and community leaders dedicated to promoting healthier communities. This organization helps communities become healthier and more livable by creating and bicycle-friendly neighborhoods with a mix of uses and nearby destinations.
http://www.leadershipforhealthycommunities.org/www.lgc.org/issues/communitydesign/activeliving.html
National Association of Counties, Transportation Solutions to Create Active, Healthy Counties: Collaboration for Childhood Obesity Prevention
This issue brief focuses on the causes and implications of childhood obesity and stresses the role that local transportation leaders play in addressing these issues. For example, leaders play a crucial role in enhancing bicycle and pedestrian safety, building bikeways and trails, improving public transportation systems and increasing safety along student routes to and from schools.
http://www.naco.org/programs/csd/Documents/Green%20Government/GF_Factsheet%20-%20Transportation%20Solutions%20to%20Create%20Active,%20Healthy%20Counties.pdf
National Center for Bicycling and Walking (NCBW)
This Web site provides information about the NCBW, a program of the Bicycle Federation of America, Inc. NCBW provides community-based workshops, consulting services, training programs for public and transportation agencies, and economic development and tourism planning analysis.
http://www.bikewalk.org/
National Complete Streets Coalition
policies direct transportation planners and engineers to consistently design streets with all users in mind. Policy-makers can use the information and resources on this site to improve the way their roads are planned, designed and constructed.
www.completestreets.org/policies.html
http://www.completestreets.org/
Public Health Law and Policy, How to Create and Implement General Healthy Plans
Public Health Law and Policy’s Planning for Healthy Places program aims to include public health advocates in community planning projects. While this toolkit was developed for local governments in the state of California, policy-makers nationwide can use the information to promote healthier environments in their cities.
http://www.phlpnet.org/system/files/WIC_Toolkit.pdf
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Trail Building Toolbox
This toolbox provides basic information communities need to build trails. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy is a nonprofit organization working with communities to preserve unused rail corridors by transforming them into trails.
www.railstotrails.org/whatwedo/trailbuilding/technicalassistance/toolbox/toolbox_index.html
The Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS) National Partnership
The SRTS National Partnership is a network of more than 400 nonprofit organizations, government agencies, schools and professionals working to advance the SRTS movement. The project can help policy-makers and other stakeholders work with state departments of transportation to increase physical activity in schools, make the best use of available federal SRTS funds, and remove policy barriers to walking and bicycling to schools.
http://www.saferoutespartnership.org/
Smart Growth, Smart Energy Toolkit
This toolkit provides policy-makers with useful information on model bylaws, case studies and other information on topics such as inclusionary zoning and environmental justice.
www.mass.gov/envir/smart_growth_toolkit/pages/how-to-SG.html
Surface Transportation Policy Partnership (STPP)
This Web site provides tools and information about surface transportation policy and issues. STPP is a nonprofit organization founded with the goal of promoting transportation policies and projects that protect the environment, benefit the economy, promote social equity and support livable communities.
http://www.transact.org/
Sustainable Communities Network, Smart Growth Design Tools
These tools help policy-makers visualize community design, land-use and transportation issues in their planning processes.
www.smartgrowth.org/library/articles.asp?art=706
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Recreational Trails Program (RTP)
This Web site provides policy-makers with information about RTP, which gives funds to states to develop and maintain recreational trails and trail-related facilities for both non-motorized and motorized recreational trail uses. The RTP funds are distributed to states by legislative formula: half of the funds are distributed equally among all states and half are distributed in proportion to the estimated amount of non-highway recreational fuel use in each state.
www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rectrails
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration: Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, Transportation, Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU)
This Web site provides a variety of materials, including the full text of the SAFETEA-LU legislation and the related congressional report, fact sheets on the programs and provisions, plus funding tables showing SAFETEA-LU authorizations.
www.fhwa.dot.gov/safetealu/index.htm
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