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Active transportation is a way of getting around by walking, biking, or rolling that can improve safety, health, equity, and climate. Learn how DOT supports active transportation networks and benefits across the country.
Active transportation refers to physical activity that people get from walking, biking, or taking transit. Learn how transportation agencies can improve active transportation facilities and reduce obesity and related health risks.
Active mobility is the transport of people or goods by non-motorized means, such as walking, cycling, or skateboarding. It improves health, reduces pollution, and enhances urban quality of life. Learn more about its forms, policies, and environmental impacts.
Active transportation is a term that refers to walking, biking, and other forms of human-powered mobility. Learn how transportation agencies promote active transportation for health, safety, and livability benefits.
Promoting active transportation or human-powered transportation through policy, systems, and environmental change is one of the leading evidence-based strategies to increase physical activity regardless of age, income, racial/ethnic background, ability, or disability. Initiatives often require coordination across federal, state, and local agencies.
Active transportation is walking and biking, which can help advance public health goals and make communities livable and sustainable. Learn more about active transportation modes, safety, planning, and funding from AASHTO's resources and events.
This paper explores the concept of active travel, which is often equated with walking and cycling, and expands it to include other modes such as running, skateboarding, and wheelchair use. It reviews the literature on these wider active modes and their implications for policy, practice and research.
Active transportation is human-powered travel that relies on physical energy, such as walking, cycling, or scootering. It has positive impacts on health, environment, and communities, but also faces safety, infrastructure, and cultural barriers. Learn how to plan and promote active transportation initiatives.
Learn how human-powered mobility, such as biking or walking, can reduce vehicle emissions, conserve fuel, and improve health. Find out about e-bikes, shared micromobility programs, and infrastructure development for active transportation.
Active transportation is using your own power to get from one place to another, such as walking, biking or skateboarding. Learn how active transportation benefits your health, society, environment and economy, and how to design communities to support it.