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General

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2311

Promoting Connectivity

A well-connected transportation network reduces the distances traveled to reach destinations, increases the options for routes of travel, and can facilitate walking and bicycling. Well-connected, multimodal networks are characterized by seamless bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, direct...

Encourage and Promote Safe Bicycling and Walking

Educating people about safe bicycling and walking, enforcing laws that make it easier and safer for people to bicycle and walk, and encouraging people to bicycle and walk, may help increase walking and bicycling activity, especially when combined with infrastructure improvements. This strategy...

Built Environment Strategies to Deter Crime

Community safety can affect the levels of physical activity within a community, including walking and bicycling. Areas with higher levels of crime and violence have been associated with lower physical activity levels. People are more physically active in areas where they feel safe. Gender, age,...

DOT Onboard Demographics June FY 2015

This spreadsheet provides onboard statistics for June, FY 2015. Demographics are particularly useful to managers in the workforce planning process.  These data are also used by Congressional staffers and others who have an interest in the size and makeup of the federal workforce, and...

News Digest DOT 69-15

FTA Publishes Final Interim Policy Guidance for the Capital Investment Grant Program. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recently published a Federal Register notice announcing new Final Interim Policy Guidance for the Capital Investment Grant Program (CIG). The guidance describes how FTA...

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