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Walkable Communities
An organization promoting active transportation and sustainable community design combining transportation efficiency and land use planning.
National Complete Streets Coalition
A coalition working “to enact complete street policies across the country.”
“What are complete streets, and complete streets policies?
Complete streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities must be able to safely move along and across a complete street.”
The Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, Inc.
The mission of this non-profit organization based in Port Townsend, Washington is “to make cities and towns throughout the world walkable, bicycle and transit friendly, livable, sustainable, socially engaging and welcoming places by improving their built form.”
The Institute Web site says “Walkable streets create a human scale and sense of enclosure to the street, helping to keep vehicle speeds low. Walkways must be buffered, not immediately adjacent to moving traffic. Use of planter strips, on-street parking or bike lanes achieve this while helping create ’enclosure.’”
National Center for Bicycling and Walking
This is “the major program of the Bicycle Federation of America, Inc., a national, non-profit established in 1977 to change the way communities are planned, designed and managed to ensure that people of all ages and abilities can walk and bike easily, safely and regularly.”
www.walkscore.com
This Web site includes a feature that gives that computes walk scores based on various features and provides details on the most walkable neighborhoods in the largest 40 U.S. cities.
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