Equity Resources

The following resources explore connections between active transportation, health, and racial equity.

Taking on Traffic Laws: A How-To Guide for Decriminalizing Mobility

This guide helps advocates repeal and modify traffic laws related to walking and bicycling that fail to meet their intended safety goals and instead lead to racialized enforcement of people walking and bicycling.

An Advocacy Guide to Repealing Harmful Traffic Laws: Setting Up Your Policy Campaign for Success

This report explores the complexities of equitable active transportation and the issues that arise at the junction of efforts to advance walking and bicycling and work to increase health, fairness, and opportunity for low-income communities and communities of color.

At the Intersection of Active Transportation and Equity

This report explores the complexities of equitable active transportation and the issues that arise at the junction of efforts to advance walking and bicycling and work to increase health, access, and opportunity for low-income communities and communities of color.

Using Safe Routes to School to Combat the Threat of Violence

In some communities, the danger of violence and crime discourages children from walking to school and keeps people off the street, limiting physical activity and restricting errands and trips. Using a framework known as the “Six E’s,” this fact sheet identifies specific kinds of actions that can combat violence and support Safe Routes to School.