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The biking & walking benchmarking report website : an online tool to support health equity
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June 20, 2018
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Description:THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION and the Institute of Transportation Engineers, in partnership with the League of American Bicyclists, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Highway Administration, have unveiled an online tool that makes active transportation data more accessible.
The Benchmarking Report Website (bikingandwalkingbenchmarks.org) was developed to share data and findings from the biennial Bicycling and Walking in the United States: Benchmarking Report.
As public health professionals work to advance health equity in their communities, the Benchmarking Report Website is a valuable resource to help inform decision makers, illustrate data and inspire advocates to action.
The online tool has been developed with public health practitioners, researchers, planners, engineers, students, and bicycle/pedestrian coordinators and advocates in mind, offering opportunities to explore the data in several ways. Ready-made graphics and data tables make it easy to find and present key data points, such as bicyclist and pedestrian fatality rates, active commuting levels and state funding provisions for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure projects. Users can select up to four states or cities included in the report to compare the data provided by the tool.
For researchers and advocates who want to dig deeper into the data, spreadsheets with all data collected for the Benchmarking Report are available to download from the website. Hundreds of rows of data have been compiled into two spreadsheets — one for states and one for cities included in the Benchmarking Report. Each data set is identified with its source, helping analysts find more detailed information about the methodologies for data collection.
This white paper was made possible through a contract between the American Public Health Association and Dovetail Projects funded through cooperative agreement 5U38OT000131-03 between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and APHA. The contents of this document are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of APHA or CDC.
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