See also points of view, international walking organisations, international conferences, walking and health
| Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity? Examining the Evidence (Transport Research Board USA) |
http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=4536 http://trb.org/publications/trnews/trnews237activity.pdf (3 page summary) http://trb.org/publications/sr/sr282.pdf (269 page report) |
| Hamilton Baille (UK) report on Streets and the Public Realm |
pdf/Building_for_Health.pdf
(our copy - 341K pdf) http://www.hamilton-baillie.co.uk/papers/Building for Health.pdf (original - 6.5M pdf) |
| Vatican: THE PASTORAL CARE OF ROAD USERS - see particularly section III | The Vatican |
| 2007 Benchmarking Report “Bicycling and Walking in the U.S.” | http://www.thunderheadalliance.org/benchmarking.htm |
| UK Sustainable Development Commission: Transport, health & environment |
http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=501 http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=542 |
| The University of Sydney Centre for Physical Activity and Health: Tools to measure the walkability and cycleability of the local environment | http://www.cpah.health.usyd.edu.au/research/facts.php |
| Interview with Salt Lake City mayor and green innovator Rocky Anderson (potential for smart growth and intelligent transport to contribute to Climate Protection). |
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/02/06/anderson/index.html?source=daily See also http://www.slcgreen.com/ |
| Surface Transportation Policy Project (USA) - a diverse, nationwide coalition working to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment. The second link is to a report on transport costs in the USA. | http://www.transact.org/ |
| Assessing health impact of projects (World Health organisation) | http://www.who.int/hia/en/ |
| UK Department for Transport - Travelling to school: action plan | UK Department for Transport website (large pdf file) |
| International Labour Office - staggered hours schemes | ILO office website (pdf file) |
| Victoria Transport Policy Institute (online TDM Encyclopaedia), numerous other transport related articles. | http://www.vtpi.org/, http://www.vtpi.org/tdm |
| Smart Growth BC report: Promoting Public Health Through Smart Growth. This report explains how our built environment shapes our transportation choices, and in turn, human health. It reviews the existing research for a range of transportation-related health impacts on seven public health outcomes: Physical Activity and Obesity, Air Quality, Traffic Safety, Noise, Water Quality, Mental Health and Social Capital. |
http://www.smartgrowth.bc.ca Smart Growth website (5M pdf) Copy of report on our site (5M pdf) |
| North Carolina bicycle network: Research Pays Off - Bikeways to Prosperity: Assessing the Economic Impact of Bicycle Facilities | http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=6006 |
| National center for bicycling & walking (USA) | http://www.bikewalk.org/ |
| Sustrans sustainable travel site (UK) - see particularly page on active travel (& health) |
http://www.sustrans.org.uk/ http://www.sustrans.org.uk/default.asp?sID=1090848020203&pID= |
| UK Dept of Transport - Promoting walking as a healthy and more preferable option to the motor car for short journeys. | http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_susttravel/documents/divisionhomepage/031342.hcsp |
| Article in New Scientist: Stopping the slaughter of innocent pedestrians - cars could be re-engineered to make them safer for pedestrians. But will car owners be willing to pay? | New Scientist (You get the first few paragraphs, only subscribers can get the whole article for free). |
| Bay Area (USA) Rapid Transit station access guidelines (quite a lot on pedestrian access, but there is a big pdf file to download) | http://www.nelsonnygaard.com/articles/article_bartaccess.htm |
| The study on pedestrian behavior in urban space (part of a Master's thesis at the University of Washington). |
http://depts.washington.edu/dmgftp/publications/pdfs/mouse_class/chapter2.pdf
(800K pdf file) http://depts.washington.edu/dmgftp/publications/pdfs/mouse_class/mousePDF.html |
| International Walk to School | http://www.iwalktoschool.org/ |
| Rod Tolley - providing for pedestrians (in Melbourne, but applies much more widely) |
http://www.doi.vic.gov.au/... copy of pdf file on this site |
| Sydney - walking the streets - interesting places | http://www.walksydneystreets.net/ |
| Sydney - travel planner | http://www.131500.info/newJourney.asp |
| Sydney - City Rail | http://www.cityrail.info/index.jsp |
| Summary of (USA) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Pedestrian and Bicycle Research and Program Activities | http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bikeped/pedbiketrb2005.htm |
| Two legs good, four wheels bad - article about Jan Ghel | http://afr.com/articles/2004/12/02/1101923262069.html |
| Urban Ecology | http://www.urbanecology.org |
| Active living by design (USA) | http://www.activelivingbydesign.org |
| Smart Growth Online (USA) | http://www.smartgrowth.org/Default.asp |
| Living roofs |
http://www.livingroofs.org http://www.blackredstarts.org.uk/pages/greenroof.html |
| UK Department of Transport white paper future of transport | http://www.dft.gov.uk/strategy/futureoftransport/ |
| Bibliographies from the Institute of Urban Planning, School of the Built Environment, University of Nottingham, U.K. See particularly section on walking and pedestrian strategies. |
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sbe/planbiblios/ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sbe/planbiblios/bibs/sustrav/refs/03/ |
| Life Between Buildings - Using Public Space by Jan Gehl | http://www.rudi.net/bookshelf/classics/lifebetweenbuildings/index |
| Psychology & child pedestrian accidents | http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/Psychology/Roaduser/Roaduser.html |
| Walking as art | http://guardian.curtin.edu.au/cga/art/ |
| Project for public spaces | http://www.pps.org |
| New Urbanism website | http://www.newurbanism.org/pages/532096/index.htm |
| BBC online discussion pages: speed bumps, intelligent speed policing |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/speedbumps http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/CLUB16 |
| Rodney Tolley on Planning for Pedestrians | Department of Infrastructure, State Government of Victoria, Australia |
| Safety in numbers: more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and bicycling | http://ip.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/3/205 |
| Comparison of walking/cycling policies in US, Germany & Netherlands. | http://ncbwforum.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=943603&f=34060193&m=946604073&r=946604073#946604073 |
| Clean air society of Australia & New Zealand | http://www.casanz.org.au/ |
| Project for public spaces (US) - Health and community issues | http://www.pps.org/issue_papers/Health_and_community_design.htm |
| UK Dept of Transportation papers on walking |
http://www.local-transport.dft.gov.uk/consult/walking/pdf/discussion_paper.pdf http://www.local-transport.dft.gov.uk/consult/walking/pdf/goodpractice.pdf |
| UK Parliamentary report: Living Places: Cleaner, Safer, Greener |
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmodpm/673/67302.htm http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmodpm/673/673.pdf |
| UK Dept of Transportation consultation paper: On the move: by foot |
http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_localtrans/documents/page/dft_localtrans_022857.hcsp http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_localtrans/documents/pdf/dft_localtrans_pdf_022857.pdf |
| Travel plan for the Borough
of Telford & Wrekin (England) |
http://www.telford.gov.uk/Environment/Transport/ltp_full.htm |
| Victoria Transport Policy Institute (a Canadian online encyclopaedia with many useful facts and studies, many highly relevant to pedestrian advocacy) |
http://www.vtpi.org/
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| EU site for research into sustainable transport, includes comparisons between cities and recommendations for more effective strategies to help pedestrians | http://www.cordis.lu/transport/home.html |
| Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety, Inc. (PEDS) | http://www.peds.org/ |
| Perils for Pedestrians | http://www.pedestrians.org/ |
| Walking school bus - USA | http://www.walktoschool-usa.org/wsb/ |
| Washington State Department of Transportation walking site | http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/walk/ |
| Washington State Department of Transportation bicycling site | http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/bike/ |
| Leisure walks around Brighton, England (Celia wants a similar listing for our site) | http://www.thisisbrightonandhove.co.uk/brighton__hove/leisure/walks/ |
| Internet discussion group | http://www.flora.org/pednet/ |
| Internet discussion group | http://www.ava.org/walklist.htm |