A 2003 working paper from Robert Cervero and Michael Duncan of University of California, Berkeley, has been added to the Research Center best practices. "Walking, Bicycling, and Urban Landscapes: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area" examines the question of what impact the built environment has on non-motorized travel (NMT) behavior.

The Victoria Transport Policy Institute's "Economic Value of Walkablilty" has been added to the Best Practices in the Resource Center.

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.

Have you ever gone to a city and wondered where to go to eat or drink?  You might pull out your iPhone and search for restaurants but it might be hard to get to the good ones.  Well at least in one city there is a handy go to guide to finding your way to those special spots without a car.  It happens to be in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County's new Model Design Manual for Living Streets has been added to the best practices database in the Research Center.

Norm Garrick discusses the importance of Walk Score, the Lessons of Lewis Mumford and how a good transportation system actually minimizes unnecessary transportation.

Following up on his discussion of Santa Monica deciding to take their congestion issue head on, Jeff Tumlin talks about why Santa Monica has the best collection of walkable commercial districts on the West Coast, rivaling San Francisco and Oakland, and how parts of Santa Monica can increase access to them.  Additionally, you'll get a little dirt on the mobility of Hollywood producers in the 30s and 40s.

In the last decade, nearly 50,000 pedestrians were killed and 688,000 injured as a result of the decades-long neglect of pedestrian safety in the design and use of American streets, according to "Dangerous by Design," a report released today by Transportation for America.