PARTNER Toolkit: Get Started
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Improving active travel in a community means enhancing safety, accessibility, and ease of movement for low-speed, nonmotorized transportation. While walking and biking are often the primary focus, active travel also includes wheelchairs, strollers, electric bicycles, scooters, and skateboards. The goal is to provide essential mobility options for all community members.
Active travel can serve both practical and recreational purposes. It may involve getting to a destination, such as biking to work or walking from a bus stop to the grocery store. Other times, active travel serves a more enjoyable purpose, such as taking a scooter to visit friends, rolling in a wheelchair with friends to get a cup of coffee, or pushing a child in a stroller to visit friends. In This Step of the PARTNER Toolkit you will... |
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We also discuss how to encourage more walking and biking in your community by improving the physical surroundings people interact with as they travel to the destination or even the destination itself.
Other items covered in this section include how to decide what area to work in, how long the process will take, and what different partners you may work with during the process. |
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