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  1. Land Use Innovation: Experiences in the Adoption of Land Use Policies to Promote Active Living

    Obesity continues to be a major public health problem in the United States. As of 2007, 28.8% of adolescents were either overweight or obese. The rise in obesity may, in part, be attributable to declines in...

  2. Evaluating a New Urbanist Neighborhood

    New Urbanist neighborhoods aim to improve sustainability by reducing automobile use, increasing walking and cycling, increasing the diversity of land uses and people, and increasing social capital, through...

  3. The Role of Health and Physical Activity in the Adoption of Innovative Land Use Policy: Findings from Surveys of Local...

    Background: Research has established that built environments, including street networks, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and land uses, can positively affect the frequency and duration of daily physical...

  4. Sustainable Transportation Planning in the Portland Region

    Sustainable transportation planning principles deemphasize motor vehicle trips in favor of alternative means of moving from place to place. Portland has emerged as a national leader in bicycle commuting, public...

  5. Travel and Transit Use at Portland Area Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs)

    In recent years there has been a growing interest in using land use planning to reduce reliance on the automobile long-term, through ideas such as smart growth, New Urbanism, pedestrian pockets, and...

  6. Regional Travel Options 2007-08 Program Evaluation

    To help implement the Growth Concept, Metro’s Regional Travel Options (RTO) Program works to increase awareness of non-SOV alternatives and increase the provision of those alternatives. The program...

  7. An Evaluation of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Environmental Streamlining Efforts: A Focus on CETAS

    The Oregon Department of Transportation responded to the federal call in the late 1990s to streamline the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by (1) implementing organizational and procedural changes...

  8. Promotion of Active Transportation Among State Departments of Transportation in the U.S

    Objectives: This research aimed to assess the level of support for active transportation among state departments of transportation (DOTs) in the U.S. Methods: We conducted an inventory plans adopted by 51 state...

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