More Environment Examples
Source: Smart Surfaces Coalition
Presents a menu of policy concepts to support healthy urban tree canopies as part of efforts to manage stormwater and reduce heat.
Read More >Cool Walkability Planning: Providing Pedestrian Thermal Comfort in Hot Climate Cities
Source: Journal of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences
Introduces the Cool Walkshed Index to rate pedestrian thermal protection.
Read More >Source: The Funders Network
Covers a report examining how advocates are transforming the transportation system in seven states.
Read More >Source: E-Bike Battery Recycling
Offers information on an e-bike battery recycling program.
Read More >COVID Hospitalizations and Mortality Related to Built Environment, Active and Sedentary Travel
Source: Health & Place
Presents neighborhood level results linking census tract-level built environment and active/sedentary travel measures with COVID hospitalization and mortality rates in King County, Washington.
Read More >Source: TheMayor.eu
Reports that Stockholm, Sweden is working on a project that will provide visualizations of the real time levels of nitrogen dioxide (NOx) and microparticles (PM10) pollutants on mobile apps to help people walking and biking plan their trips around the city to avoid the most polluted areas on any particular day.
Read More >Source: ADPro
Describes an innovative area of neuroscience that explores how proximity to the arts and beautiful environments measurably affects humans’ physical and mental well-being.
Read More >Source: PeopleForBikes
Covers recycling and disposal of e-bike batteries.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) and Federal Highway Administration
This white paper discusses ways to improve the ability of traditionally underserved communities to travel safely and conveniently via walking or wheeling in a sustainable, equitable transportation system
Read More >Source: Alliance for Biking and Walking
The Alliance for Biking & Walking hasbeen tracking data across the U.S. throughthe Benchmarking Project since 2003.Every two years, the project team releasesan updated report with the most recentdata available, providing a comprehensivesnapshot of biking and walking in the U.S.
Read More >Source: Transporation Alternatives
Vision Zero Cities features insights from an international braintrust of experts in the public and private sector.
Read More >Source: FHWA
This Separated Bike Lane Planning and Design Guide outlines planning considerations for separated bike lanes (also sometimes called "cycle tracks" or "protected bike lanes") and provides a menu of design optionscovering typical one and two-way scenarios.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center; Context Sensitive Solutions
City leaders wanted to make it easier for people to visit the Indianapolis's cultural districts, which were disconnected from the heart of downtown and didn't get the attention they merited. In a city with a successful linear park and trail system, but no on-street bicycle facilities, one leader envisioned a bicycle and pedestrian trail through the heart of downtown Indianapolis. Twelve years later, the city, through a public-private partnership, completed the construction of an eight-mile, separated facility that forms a loop around downtown with spurs to connect five cultural districts and neighborhoods, as well as the city's greenway system.
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