Benchmarking America's Efforts To Promote Bicycling And Walking

Alliance for Biking & Walking's 2012 report "Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2012 Benchmarking Report has been added to the Resource Center's best practices database.

Alliance for Biking & Walking is the North American coalition of grassroots bicycling and walking advocacy organizations. The research was funded in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. AARP and Planet Bike also contributed support for the report.

From the Executive Summary's conclusions:

"While many state and local communities are making sufficient efforts to promote bicycling and walking, much more work needs to be done. Barriers in staffing and funding remain a consis­tent limitation to promoting bicycling and walking. Bicycling and walking make up 11.5% of all trips, and 13.5% of traffic fatalities, and yet receive just 1.6% of federal transportation dollars.

"The proven environmental, economic, and personal health benefits that bicycling and walking offer are evidence that increasing bicycling and walk­ing levels are in the public good, yet a much greater investment is needed throughout the U.S. This Benchmarking Report identifies which cities and states are leading the way and provides links to resources from these communities."

Read the executive summary and download the full report