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Source: Voorhees Transportation Center
This paper represents the final report from a conference that explored how community design can support healthy lifestyles, specifically through the advancement of walking and biking.
Read More >Source: Center for Advanced Infastructure and Transportation (CAIT) at Rutgers University, The New Jersey Department of Transportation
This project examines the relationship between effective national transportation congestion, security, and safety technology transfer applications.
Read More >Neighborhood-Scale Planning Tools to Create Active, Livable Communities
Source: Local Government Commission, Active Living Leadership
This guide is a tool for community members to use to help create a more active, livable community.
Read More >Motorists, Bicyclists and Pedestrians: Sharing the Road Safely
Source: The New York State Department of Transportation
This training supplement is provided to trainers in Driver Improvement Programs to encourage motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians to safely share the road.
Read More >Model Local School Wellness Policies on Physical Activity and Nutrition
Source: National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity
This project contains tools that can be used to improve the wellness program in a school system. Included in this project is a sample declaration, calling for improved wellness policies, physical activity programs,
Read More >Source: Smart Growth America
This report summarizes a three-year study by Ewing, Pendall, and Chen that attempted to define, measure and evaluate metropolitan sprawl and its impact. This report is the first in a series of findings to be issued based on the ongoing analysis of that work.
Read More >Source: Suface Transportation Policy Project
This report analyzes ten years of data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) maintained by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to determine which metropolitan areas and states have grown more dangerous for walkers,
Read More >Maryland Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Education Program Administrator's Guide
Source: City of Rockville Department of Recreation and Parks
This Administrator's Guide contains information about why pedestrian and bicycle safety is important, the relevance of each lesson, and the Maryland Learner Outcomes that children will achieve through the lessons.
Read More >Source: Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, UNC School of Public Health
This guidebook helps community groups, organizations, and concerned individuals learn how to collaborate with planning staff and other officials to improve their local roads for walking and bicycling.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration
This Federal Highway Administration insight article discusses the challenges facing pedestrians in current city design and ways to improve pedestrian safety.
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