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 Bicycle Parking Solutions
''A Resource for Installing Indoor Bicycle Parking.''
Bikeability Checklist
How bikeable is your community? The Bikeability Checklist can help you find the answer. Inside you'll find insightful questions, allowing you to evaluate your neighborhood's bikeability.
Chicago's Green Dividend
Chicago's Green Dividend is a fact sheet that illustrates how a difference of 2 miles in commuting distance can result in billions saved in transportation costs. Chicago residents, who travel on average 2 miles less in their daily commute than residents of other major U.S. cities, enjoy this “green dividend.”
Community Design, Active Living and Public Health
Community Design, Active Living and Public Health makes a compelling case for changes in regional and community design to reverse the growing trend toward obesity and its negative effects on health.
Complete Streets for Active Communities
Complete Streets for Active Communities is a new fact sheet from the Active Living Resource Center Library, part of the Active Living Resource Center (ALRC).
Counties and Residential Green Building Standards
Counties and Residential Green Building Standards is a fact sheet from the National Association of Counties (NACo) that provides an introduction to green buildings and an overview of green building programs, with examples and links from throughout the United States.
Delaware Funding Matrices
The Environmental Finance Center's (EFC's) online Resource Center includes a Delaware Funding Matrice in Excel format.
Designing for Active Recreation
Designing for Active Recreation is a fact sheet that summarizes the current state of research into the way community design is related to whether people walk or bicycle to get to where they're going.
Emergency Response and Traditional Neighborhood Street Design
Emergency Response and Traditional Neighborhood Street Design from the Local Government Commission is a 12-page fact sheet containing case studies that illustrate how issues around emergency-vehicle access to narrow streets were handled in three cities.
Fact Sheet: Making Streets Safe for Bicycling and Walking
America Bikes Complete the Streets, a two-page fact sheet that discusses the inadequacies of many streets for bicycle and pedestrian traffic, the safety risks for those who choose to ride or walk those streets, and ways to accommodate alternate transporation on new street projects.
Fact sheets
Local Government Commission. A series of 4-page fact sheets on livability, traffic safety, crime prevention, planning issues, and more.
Geographic Information Systems: A Tool for Improving Community Livability
This fact sheet from Local Government Commission contains examples of how communities have used GIS to improve the livability of their communities.
Getting Youth Involved in Planning
The Active Living Resource Center offers this two-page fact sheet on getting youth involved in community planning.
Growing a Healthier DC
Why is green infrastructure important, and how can it be incorporated as business districts grow and schools are renovated, for example? To answer these questions Casey Trees has developed a series of issue briefs, Growing a Healthier DC, that are available for free download on their website.
Guidelines for Walking School Bus -- Spanish
The Atlanta Bicycle Campaign offers a Walking School Bus Guidelines fact sheet in Spanish. This two-page fact sheet is part of an educational program package designed to promote alternative means for children to get to school.
Higher-Density Development -- Myth and Fact
Higher-Density Development -- Myth and Fact from the Urban Land Institute examines eight widespread misconceptions about higher-density development and dispels them with well-researched facts and examples of quality, compact developments.
If You Build It They Will Come -- Transportation Facts
If You Build It They Will Come is a two-page fact sheet from NRDC that describes how smart growth land-use strategies place a premium on what Americans value: shorter trips to and from the office and other destinations, opportunities to travel conveniently without having to drive, pedestrian-friendly sidewalks, and amenities like restaurants, shops, and libraries within walking distance of their homes.
Is My Community Elder Friendly?
The Elderberry Institute offers a two-page questionnaire, ''Is My Community Elder Friendly?'' that will score a community based on a series of graded questions.
Key Regional Appropriations, 2008-2009
Northeast-Midwest Institute publishes a chart that illustrates key federal appropriation distributions by region. This chart list figures for Fiscal 2008, the President's Request for Fiscal 2009, and Final 2009.
LEED for Neighborhood Development -- FAQs
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has prepared this Frequently Asked Questions sheet for their LEED for Neighborhood Development program.
Livable Communities@Work
This new publication series being from the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities focuses on the practical aspects of how we create smarter, more livable communities for all. Each and will highlight successful strategies, explore tensions created by competing issues, and generally help spur informed debate on critical topics.
Montana Smart Growth Coalition Checklist
The Montana Smart Growth Coalition has created a quantitative checklist of criteria to determine if a development project is truly smart growth and deserves MSGC's support during permitting and marketing.
Neighborhood Scale Planning Tools
Sprawling urban development and auto-dominated streets make it nearly impossible for people to integrate walking or bicycling into their daily routines. As national physical activity levels decrease and obesity rates increase, local leaders are looking for ways to incorporate smart growth or livable communities principles into their general plans so people can safely and conveniently walk and ride a bicycle for transportation and exercise.
While many communities subscribe to livability principles, local governments often encounter difficulty implementing them. All too often the broad ''smart growth'' objectives that are included in a general plan lack the detail and legal framework that is necessary to effectively guide actual development. As a result, development is less compact, and less conducive to walking and bicycling than was originally envisioned. This six page fact sheet offers tips, tools, and case studies to help communities align planning with the implementation of walkable community design.
For more information please visit the resource link below.
Regional Visioning Projects in CA
How is your region planning to accommodate growth in the next fifty years? Check out the highlights of the regional visioning efforts emerging around California and across the nation.
Setting the Record Straight: Best Value Transit Projects
This issue brief from Surface Transportation Policy Project (STTP) examines transportation investments as economic boosters: What types of transit projects provide the best value returned for the investment? It's part of STTP's policy brief series, Decoding Transportation Policy & Practice.
Short Term Strategies that Increase Travel Efficiency and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
''Short Term Strategies to Increase Travel Efficiency and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions'' is a two-page fact sheet from the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP).
Smart Growth in Vancouver City
Smart growth is managing,
rather than reacting to growth. Read about it in the May-June issue of
the City Flyer. Vancouver City utility customers receive the City Flyer in their utility
bills.
Smart Growth Network Fact Sheet
The SGN Fact Sheet provides a quick overview of smart growth principles and issue areas, as well as a list of the Smart Growth Network's Partners.
Smart Growth Schools Fact Sheet
Across the country, school boards have abandoned smaller neighborhood schools in favor of large campuses located on the edge of the community. But many communities are discovering the benefits of using smart growth principles in creating schools that meet the needs of both parents and students.
Starting a Walking School Bus
This fact sheet from the Walking School Bus website provides a quick introduction to the benefits of a walking school bus. Find out how to start one in your community!
Street Design and Emergency Response Fact Sheet
Street Design and Emergency Response, from the Local Government Commission, summarizing the solutions that make safe Smart Growth streets work for emergency responders as well as residents.
Trails for Health
Trails for Health is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiative to help Americans of all ages achieve the health benefits of physical activity by increasing opportunities for physical activity and helping to make it an integral part of community life.
Transportation and Health
Surface Transportation Policy Project offers this fact sheet detailing how more driving and less walking quickly adds weight and other health concerns.
Transportation Tech Sheets.
San Francisco: Congress for New Urbanism, 1999. Intended for a general audience, these Tech Sheets are concise, illustrated, two-page summaries of transportation topics of interest to New Urbanists. Includes sheets on: traffic calming, bus stops, ped sheds, free parking, parking management and vintage trolleys.
Transportation Tools to Improve Children’s Health and Mobility
This seven-page fact sheet reviews California's efforts to make communities safer for children to walk and bike to school as part of that state's ''Safe Routes to Schools'' legislation.
Transportation Tools to Improve Children's Health and Mobility
The Transportation Tools to Improve Children's Health and Mobility fact sheet has been designed especially for transportation professionals.
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