Safe Routes to School 2009 Policy Report: Moving to the Future: Building on Early Achievements [PDF]
This report gives background information on Safe Routes to School and details challenges and opportunities in program implementation. The 2009 Policy Report also discusses a number of "big-picture" policies and practices that affect -- positively or ...
Margo Pedroso
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Land Use and Transportation Planning to Promote Physical Activity in North Carolina [PDF]
With national and state agencies as well as leading public health foundations providing impetus, efforts to improve the understanding of policy and environmental attributes that may support active lifestyles have become a promising area for collaboration
Aytur, Semra
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Material‐Based Intelligence: Autonomous Adaptation and Embodied Computation in Physical Substrates
This perspective formulates a unifying framework for Material‐Based Intelligence (MBI), defining the physical requirements for materials to achieve embodied action, active memory and embodied information processing through intrinsic nonequilibrium dynamics. The design of intelligent materials often draws parallels with the complex adaptive behaviors of
Vladimir A. Baulin +4 more
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Heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environment
Bicycling is an environmentally friendly, healthy, and affordable mode of transportation that is viable for short-distance trips. Urban planners, public health advocates, and others are therefore looking for strategies to promote more bicycling ...
Deborah Salon +3 more
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Active Transportation for America [PDF]
In this era of traffic congestion, high gas prices, climate change, an obesity epidemic, and fiscal constraints, federal transportation funding has reached a critical crossroads.Decades of car-centered transportation policies have dead-ended in chronic ...
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A novel method for recognizing the phases in bicycling of lower limb amputees using support vector machine (SVM) optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed in this paper.
Xinxin Li +3 more
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Diversity, Culture, and Bicycling, Blog 1 [PDF]
Student blog posts from the Great VCU Bike Race ...
Baker, Brittany
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Safe Routes to School: A Catalyst for Building Partnerships and Leveraging Resources [PDF]
This report showcases how SRTS programs are resulting in the implementation of infrastructure improvements that close gaps in the non-motorized transportation network. Four communities are showcased -- Avondale, AZ; Bozeman, MT; Knoxville, TN; and Miami,
Deb Hubsmith
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Perceptions of Bicycle-Friendly Policy Impacts on Accessibility to Transit Services: The First and Last Mile Bridge, MTI Report 12-10 [PDF]
The coordination of bicycle and transit modes has received close attention from public transit planners and researchers in recent years, as transit agencies around the world have installed bicycle racks on transit vehicles, implemented bicycles-on-trains
Flamm, Bradley, Rivasplata, Charles
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Safe Routes to School Increases Physical Activity and Improves Health [PDF]
This report indicates how Safe Routes to School is being institutionalized at select schools, and providing a mechanism to improve student and school health.
Brooke Driesse
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