Mayor Karl Dean discusses the importance of active transportation and its role in public health. He notes that Americans spend most of their time indoors and in cars, leading to sedentary lifestyles. The document outlines strategies to make walking and biking more accessible and convenient forms of transportation, including safe routes to school programs, complete streets design, and prioritizing active transportation in regional planning projects. The goal is to create healthier communities by integrating physical activity into daily transportation.

1. Mayor Karl Dean, Chairman
Active Transportation
Creating Healthy Communities by Incorporating
Outdoor Physical Activity into Transportation

2. Where Do We Spend Our Time?
• Americans spend nearly 90% of time indoors
• 10% of time in transportation
• Nearly 90% of trips in the U.S. are by car

3. Obesity & Transportation
• Moving Less, Gaining More Weight

4. Streets Are For Communities
…Not Just for Cars
Everyone is a Pedestrian…

5. Active Transportation
Making the Healthy Choice the Easy One

6. Transportation & Health
What We Eat & How We Move
• Access to Healthy Foods
• Physical Activity Through Transportation

7. Safe Routes to School

8. Safe Routes to School
• Safe Routes to Schools P.E. Teacher Training Program
for P.E. Teachers in MPO Region
• SRTS Data Collection Effort with MTSU
• Safe Routes to School State Network Project

9. School Siting
Larger Schools on Bigger Sites – the Big Box approach to Education
School Siting = where and how we decide to build schools.
1930 2006
# Schools 238,000 97,382
# Students 28 million 55 million
National Center for Educational Statistics, 2008

10. School Siting
Community Centered Schools = Schools located near communities served

11. Complete Streets
Complete Streets means designing streets to support a
variety of transportation options, suitable for all ages and
ability levels, supporting vibrant and economically
healthy communities.

12. Regional Bicycle & Pedestrian Study
Winner Institute of Transportation Engineers
2010 National Best Project Award
Winner Tennessee ACEC 2010
Engineering Excellence Grand
Award

13. Walk / Bike Demand
The proximity of land uses such as
residential housing, employment,
shopping, schools, transit, parks,
and other activities influence
walking and bicycle travel demand.
The Nashville Regional Non-
Motorized Model accounts for the
following eight trip types for both
walk & bicycle travel:
• School
• Shop
• Work
• Recreation
• Transit (to)
• Transit (from)
• Errand
• Parking (CBD)

14. Health Impact Priority Areas
Innovative Element of the Regional Bike/Ped Study

15. Project Evaluation Criteria
• Regional Transportation Plan – 2035
• Being developed now
• $4.5 Billion in transportation projects
• Active Transportation:
- Folded into project evaluation criteria
- Active Transportation project components receive points for
elements such as transit stops, bicycle racks, bikeways,
sidewalks and greenways
- Over 500 projects submitted and 80-90% include either
pedestrian or bicycle facilities, or both

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