Transportation

eConference: Planning Healthy and Child-Friendly Communities

Description: 
This eConference brings together outstanding leaders, expert professionals and scholars renowned for their breadth of vision and depth of experience. Audio presentations, transcripts of keynote speeches, slides, and papers presented at the 48th IMCL Conference are now available online. This is an invaluable resource for your city, firm or university - insightful strategies, knowledge, and tools to guide healthy and child-friendly planning policies.
Start Date: 
02/25/2011
End Date: 
05/31/2011
Date Description: 
eConference: Planning Healthy and Child-Friendly Communities

Resource Guide on Laws Related to Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety

This guide contains a compilation of vehicle and traffic laws that affect pedestrian or bicycle safety.

Integrating Public Health Objectives in Transportation Decision-Making

Conventional transportation planning tends to overlook negative health impacts from increased motor vehicle travel and potential health benefits from shifts to alternative modes. The author explores how transportation decision-making can better support public health objectives, including reduced crashes and pollution emissions, and more physical activity.

Smart Growth America

Smart Growth America is a nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow: one that protects open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, and provides more transportation choices.

Victoria Transport Policy Institute

The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative and practical solutions to transportation problems. The institute provides a variety of free resources to help improve transportation planning and policy analysis.

Walkability Checklist

A checklist to help walking advocates figure out just how walkable their community is and to identify what needs fixing.

Safe Routes to School Toolkit

This comprehensive toolkit has been designed to assist citizens in initiating, customizing and implementing a Safe Routes to School program. It discusses the 4E's model of Encouragement, Education, Engineering and Enforcement.

PBIC Image Library

This image library is a searchable collection of over 2,500 categorized images. Categories include:
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