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Bike and Pedestrian Projects: Best Practices in New Jersey and Beyond, Transportation Policy Institute- This presentation shows examples of good pedestrian and bicycle design in New Jersey. It discusses the need for pedestrian and bicycle facilities and the impact that walkable designs have on public health. ...more >
- Bike Safety Cartoon, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
- This cartoon teaches children to check their helmets, brakes, handlebars, and tires before riding. ...more >
Blueprint for Better Biking: 40 Ways to Get There, Bicycle Transportation Alliance- This guide provides innovative solutions to substantially increase cycling in the Portland, Oregon, area. ...more >
Transportation Cost and Benefit Analysis, Victoria Transport Policy Institute- This paper discusses the current and potential problems with automobile dependent societies. ...more >
- The Economic and Social Benefits of Off-Road Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities, National Bicycle and Pedestrian Clearinghouse
- This article investigates the economic and social benefits of multi-use off-road trails. ...more >
- The Economic Benefits of Trails, American Hiking Society
- This fact sheet descirbes the economic benefits of trails. It finds that the presence of trails encourages the growth of "clean" industries and businesses, helps increase the property values of surrounding lots, ...more >
- California Blueprint for Bicycling and Walking, California Department of Transportation
- The California Blueprint for Bicycling and Walking provides ambitious goals of a 50 percent increase in bicycling and walking trips by 2010, a 50 percent decrease in bicycle and pedestrian fatality rates by 2010, ...more >
- Transportation-Related Land Use Strategies to Minimize Motor Vehicle Emissions, California Air Resources Board
- The report suggests community-level performance goals that can reasonably be attained in urban, suburban and rural/exurban communities by implementing packages of transportation-related land use strategies in coordination with a multimodal transportation system. ...more >
- Traffic Calming Policy Manual, Municipality of Anchorage Traffic Department
- This manual provides a toolbox of traffic calming measures, their effectiveness and some basic guidelines for their implementation. ...more >
- Trails and Greenways for Livable Communities, Trails and Greenways Clearinghouse
- This paper discusses the role of trails in the design and walkability of a community. It looks at ways to combat sprawl with design and notes that trails and greenways act as solutions for better design. ...more >
