Tidbits You should Know for your Trail work

Fact: Although funding for walking and biking comprises 1 to 2 percent of the federal transportation budget, at least 9.5 percent of all trips involve these active transportation modes. National Household Travel Survey, 2001, as quoted by the Federal Highway Administration.

www.tfhrc.gov/safety/pedbike/pubs/05085/chapt2.html.

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy activetransportation@railstotrails.org ... information pertinent to the 2010 Campaign for Active Transportation on their Web site.

http://railtrails.org/whatwedo/events/traillink2007/conferencewrapup.html (click to the briefs about halfway down on the left)

Slideshow presentations from the conference "Making the Case" sessions and "Making the Case" issue briefs pertaining to each of the five "Making the Case" tracks (Mobility, Family and Community, Public Health, Economy and Climate) as distributed at TrailLink 2007.An important element of research and information gathering for these briefs is feedback from you.Whether national or local in scope, They are looking for studies that can aid in communicating the strengthsof trails and active transportation in a research-dominated transportation field. Please share such research.

Such studies are vital for walking and biking to be taken seriously in a national transportation debate framed by hard automobile research. Please contact Kartik Srinivas, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's Policy Outreach Manager, at kartik@railstotrails.org.

An individual you can have give you a hand, whose territory includes Indiana, is:Rory Robinson, Outdoor Recreation Planner2179 Everett Road, Peninsula, OH 44264(330) 657-2951, 2955 FAXrory_robinson@nps.govwww.nps.gov/rtca