RESOURCES
The PATHS Team has identified a series of resources that can be referenced by local practitioners to further their work.
POLICY
Policy establishes the goals and measures for successfully improving health equity and walkability in the transportation process. The following are links to selected resources that support discussion and change through policy.
- Measuring Walking Access to Parks
- Defining and Applying Walkability to Decision Making: Predicting Equity, Health and Economic Benefits of Land Use and Transportation Investments
- Guidebook for Developing Pedestrian and Bicycle Performance Measures
- A Research Roadmap for Transportation and Public Health
- Health Opportunity Index
- Collecting Network-wide Bicycle and Pedestrian Data: A Guidebook for When and Where to count
- Virginia Pedestrain Crash Assessment
- Virginia Pedestrian Safety Action Plan
- Mid-term Need and Priorities (VDOT)
- Long-term Needs (VDOT)
- Connecting Transportation and Health – a Guide to communication and collaboration
- Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy – Recommendations and Research
- Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
- Health in all Policies: Strategies to promote innovative leadership
- Health in all Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments
- Virginia Case Study of RVA Vizion Zero
- Better Health Through Equity
- Every Place Counts Leadership Academy Transportation Toolkit
- An Analysis of 18 Country Case Studies
- Making Equity and Inclusion Central to Federal Transportation Policy
- Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Health 201: Best Practices and Promising Opportunities for Health
- The Salzburg Statement on Confronting Power and Privilege for Inclusive, Equitable, and Healthy Communities
- PBOT Equity Matrix
- Racial Equity Toolkit
- Virginia Pedestrian Policy Plan
- Elevating Health Equity Through Parks and Recreation
- Policy for Integrating Bicycle and Pedestrian Accommodations
PLANS
Plans can establish clear objectives to improving health equity and walkability in specific regions. The following are links to selected resources that support discussion and change through planning.
- Enhancing Transportation Equity Analysis for Long-Range Planning and Decision Making
- 2018 Regional Transportation Plan – Transportation Equity Evaluation: An evaluation of equity, Environmental Justice Title VI outcomes
- Pedestrian Index of the Environment
- Evaluting the Distributional Effects of Regional Transportation Plans and Projects
- HIA Toolkit
- Nashville Area MPO 2035 Regional Transportation Plan
- Streets that Work
- Virginia Pedestrian Safety Action Plan
- Metrics for Planning Healthy Communities
- Measuring Multimodal Network Connectivity
- VTRANS Mid-Term Needs (Mapping)
- Park and Trails HIA Toolkit
- A Practitioners Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease
- Foundational Practices for Health Equity
- Transportation HIA Case Studies
- Every Place Counts Leadership Academy Transportation Toolkit
- Equitable Trail Development Logic Model
- Park and Trails HIA Toolkit
- Evaluating Transportation Equity: Guidance for Incorporating Distributional Impacts in Transportation Planning
- 12 Strategies for Centering and Prioritizing Equity in Transportation
- The Planners Playbook: A Community-Centered Approach to Improving Health and Equity
- Health Equity Toolkit: A Resource Inventory for Health Care Organizations
- Long-Range Planning for Health, Equity and Prosperity
- Elevating Health Equity Through Parks and Recreation
PROJECTS
The selected resources below include projects that have incorporated health equity and walkability.
- Middle Tennessee Transportation and Health Study
- Built Environment Evaluation: A Guide for Evaluating the Built Environment Projects in a Public Health Context
- Liveable Communities Demonstration Account – Transit-Oriented Development HIA
- Parks, Trails, and Health Workbook
- RVA Bikeways Map
- County Health Rankings
HEALTH EQUITY
Health equity is the cornerstone to improving walkability in our communities. The following selected resources include research done on the topic of health equity and the built environment.