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Eight Reasons Your Community Should Invest in Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure
Source: Short Elliot Hendrickson Inc.
Compiles descriptions of eight benefits of investing in bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, including cost savings, increased public health and safety, economic development and more.
Read More >Trails and Resilience: Review of the Role of Trails in Climate Resilience and Emergency Response
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Describes seven programs and funding sources to improve transportation infrastructure resilience, including investments to improve trails.
Read More >Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety in Bus Rapid Transit and High-Priority Bus Corridors
Source: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Examines the state of practice in bus transit corridor planning, design, and construction in relation to pedestrian and bicyclist safety, public health, and equity, with a focus on dedicated bus lanes.
Read More >High Bike Use Scenarios in 17 Countries: Impacts on Public Health
Source: Streetsblog USA
Finds that the benefits of biking outweigh the risks, and that replacing car trips with bike trips could prevent premature deaths from disease as well as from traffic violence.
Read More >Estimated Number of Deaths Prevented Through Increased Physical Activity Among US Adults
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine
The findings support implementing evidence-based strategies to improve physical activity to potentially reduce deaths.
Read More >Multiple Effects of E-Biking on Older Adults Observational Study
Source: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Studies Flemish and Dutch older adults to examine the effects of starting to e-bike on total and conventional biking frequencies, walking for transport, self-rated health, functionality and life space area.
Read More >European COVID-Era Pop-Up Bike Lanes Increase Cycling Trips Up to 48%
Source: Streetsblog USA
Reports on a study that finds that European cities that installed pop-up protected bike lanes during the early days of the pandemic increased the number of daily cycling trips between 11% and 48%.
Read More >Complete Streets in Pittsburgh, PA Vital for Improving Public Health
Source: Smart Growth America
Describes in text and via a brief video how Pittsburgh, PA used its complete streets policy and updated street design guidelines as a blueprint to design and build safer street networks that provide mobility for all.
Read More >Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Presents the differences in the prevalence of physical inactivity in the US by race/ethnicity and location.
Read More >Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Presents PLACES, a repository of searchable county level health data including estimates for 29 chronic disease related measures.
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