Active transportation is a key component of transportation initiatives. Here are some of the most common related movements that include or influence active transportation.
Complete Streets
Complete Streets is an approach to planning, designing, building, operating, and maintaining streets that enables safe access for all people who need to use them, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities.
Learn more about Complete Streets:
Caltrans Office of Complete Streets
Vision Zero and Safe Systems Approach
Vision Zero is the goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries. The zero deaths vision acknowledges that even one death on our transportation system is unacceptable and focuses on safe mobility for all road users. The Safe System Approach is a framework to achieve this goal, founded on the principles that humans make mistakes and that human bodies have limited ability to tolerate crash impacts. Applying the Safe System approach involves anticipating human mistakes by designing and managing road infrastructure to keep the risk of a mistake low; and when a mistake leads to a crash, the impact on the human body doesn’t result in a fatality or serious injury. Road design and management should encourage safe speeds and manipulate appropriate crash angles to reduce injury severity.
Learn more about Vision Zero and the Safe Systems Approach:
FHWA Zero Deaths and Safe System webpage
California Strategic Highway Safety Plan Safe Systems Approach Flyer
California Office of Traffic Safety Safe Systems Approach webpage
Safe Routes to School
Safe Routes to School is an initiative that works to make it safe, convenient, and fun for children to walk and bicycle to and from schools. The goal is to get more children walking and bicycling to school, improve kids’ safety, and increase health and physical activity. Safe Routes to School uses the Six Es framework for a comprehensive, integrated approach: Engagement, Equity, Engineering, Encouragement, Education, and Evaluation.
Learn more about Safe Routes to School here.
