Transportation Strategy

Objective:

• By 2020, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, or similar agencies, will convene multi-disciplinary regional stakeholder committees to integrate considerations for non-motorized travel and public health into formalized planning processes.
• By 2025, multi-disciplinary regional stakeholder committees, across the U.S., will establish a baseline inventory of plans that have integrated active design principles within them.

Objective:

• By 2020, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, or similar agencies, will convene multi-disciplinary regional stakeholder committees to encourage adoption of regulations that require buildings and transportation facilities to be designed according to principles that maximize safety and attractiveness for pedestrians and bicyclists.
• By 2025, the multi-disciplinary regional stakeholder committees will track local jurisdictions that adopt building and streetscape design guidelines based on consensus documents.

Objective:

• By 2020, at least one national city planning or transportation organization will incorporate an organizational goal for promoting best practices that encourage active living and active transportation into all of the organization’s relevant activities, such as educational accreditation, continuing education, guidelines, and other publications.
• By 2025, the multi-disciplinary regional stakeholder committees will track local jurisdictions that remove parking minimums and enact parking maximums in order to identify best parking-related policies that encourage and support active living and active transportation.
• By 2025, a national city planning or transportation organization will take the lead in compiling an inventory of planning documents that remove parking minimums and enact parking maximums, especially those that also encourage active living and active transportation.

Objective:

• By 2020, national transportation and city planning organizations will partner with professional, industry, advocacy, and technical assistance organizations to develop a set of model zoning codes, practices, and procedures that require or favor mixed-use zoning and protect open space, farmland, and natural resources.
• By 2021, a multi-disciplinary committee will convene to develop a national database of land-use zoning policies.

Objective:

• By 2025, national transportation organizations will partner with state governments to increase the number of states that provide requirements or incentives for mixed-use zoning and related policies.
• By 2025, national and state transportation organizations will partner with state governments to increase the number of local jurisdictions that adopt mixed-use zoning and related policies.

Objective:

• By 2020, state and local transportation, city planning, and housing organizations will partner with professional, industry, advocacy, and technical assistance organizations to develop and promote model codes, policies, and practices designed to reduce gentrification and displacement in housing while promoting equitable economic development.
• By 2025, a national transportation, city planning, or housing organization will take the lead in compiling an inventory of state and local organizations that have adopted codes, policies, and practices designed to reduce gentrification and equitable economic development.

Objective: By 2020, transportation advocacy organizations will track and rank (as a percentage of each state’s total budget) state-level spending that promotes active transportation.

Objective:

• By 2020, transportation advocacy organizations will collect and disseminate sample active transportation policies that include a strong emphasis on transportation equity.
• By 2025, transportation advocacy organizations will establish a database to track states and localities which adopt policies that prioritize active transportation funds for low-income communities.

Objective: By 2020, transportation advocacy organizations will track the number of states and localities that utilize public health-related performance measures and impacts to determine transportation projects and priorities.

Objective:

• By 2020, transportation advocacy organizations will track the number of federal, state, and county laws that provide tax or other incentives designed to increase active transportation and related infrastructure.
• By 2025, transportation advocacy organizations will establish a database to track which states and localities provide tax or other incentives designed to increase active transportation and related infrastructure.

Objective:

• By 2020, transportation organizations will partner with local metropolitan planning organizations to build data analysis capacity to collect, maintain, and analyze active transportation data for all localities within the metropolitan planning organization’s jurisdiction.
• By 2023, transportation organizations will advocate for the addition of two questions to the American Community Survey (ACS) that gather more specific information about using active transportation for trip-making outside of work trips.
• By 2025, transportation organizations will track improvements in national, state, and local data collection on active transportation.

Objective:

• By 202o, transportation organizations will partner with metropolitan planning organizations to expand data collection capacity of metropolitan planning organizations for pedestrian and bicycle trips.
• By 2030, transportation organizations will regularly track new data collection on pedestrian and bicycle mode shift and related impacts at the national, state, regional, and local levels.

Objective:

• By 2020, state transportation agencies and planning organizations will convene multi-sector commissions to draft performance metrics for active transportation.
• By 2022, state transportation agencies and planning organizations will establish performance measures that are specific to physical activity and health for transportation plans; and adopt a specific target to reduce traffic injuries and fatalities for pedestrians and cyclists.
• By 2032, a majority of states will require local jurisdictions with local planning commissions to adopt comprehensive plans that incorporate performance measures specific to active transportation and physical activity and a process for analyzing health impacts of physical activity.

Objective:

• By 2022, a majority of local jurisdictions will have created internal departments and capacity to incorporate active transportation data and goals in transportation planning models.
• By 2030, traditional models used to predict automobile movements will be replaced by Activity Based Models that consider trip purpose and individual characteristics in order to assign the most appropriate travel mode to the trip (e.g., walk, bike, transit, or auto).

Objective:

• By 2025, transportation and government entities will partner with national employer wellness organizations to provide a baseline of best-practice comprehensive transportation demand management programs that encourage active commuting.
• By 2030, transportation and government entities will partner with national employer wellness organizations to promote best-practice requirements and incentives that have been shown to effectively increase transportation demand management programs encouraging active commuting.
• By 2035, transportation and government entities, in partnership with national employer wellness organizations, will track and report on transportation demand management programs that encourage active commuting.

Objective: By 2025, national active transportation leaders will develop and promote a database of existing evidence-based and market-oriented transportation demand management tools that encourage active transportation.

Objective:

• By 2020, a national committee composed of leaders from local jurisdictions, public health, and transportation will be convened to track the existence, location, and quality of bicycle sharing programs.
• By 2025, the national committee will identify bicycle sharing best practices and the quality of existing bicycle sharing programs in the United States.
• By 2025, the national committee will promote and assist regional and local leaders with implementing and expanding community bicycle sharing programs within their jurisdictions.

Objective:

• By 2025, national active-transportation organizations will identify and disseminate findings on economic, environmental, and health benefits of high performing communities.
• By 2030, national pedestrian and bicycle advocacy and education organizations will promote and expand existing Bicycle-Friendly and Walk-Friendly Community, Campus, and Business award programs.

Objective:

• By 2020, a national transportation or education advocacy organization will develop a database to track changes in school siting policies.
• By 2020, a national transportation or education advocacy organization will develop a database to annually measure and track school travel mode share.
• By 2025, school districts will track and report changes in school travel mode shares in the database.

Objective: By 2025, professional education and certification programs will establish best practice criteria for course content related to active transportation in city planning, transportation engineering and planning, and public health courses.

Objective:

• By 2025, national transportation partners will develop and disseminate a comprehensive list of best-practice transportation safety programs that have been shown to minimize pedestrian and bicycle collisions, injuries, and fatalities.
• By 2030, state and regional transportation partners will develop a baseline of state, regional, and local jurisdictions that adopt evidence-based pedestrian and bicyclist safety programs.

Objective: By 2025, state and local transportation partner agencies and national advocacy organizations will have developed a national communication strategy for sharing success stories of short-term interventions, demonstrations, and pilot projects that create knowledge of and demand for permanent infrastructure and policy improvements for walking, cycling, and transit.

Objective: By 2025, transportation and government entities will partner to develop physical activity outreach, promotion, and messaging resources that recognize the benefits of active transportation-oriented designs.