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The Campaign for Active Transportation

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's (RTC) Campaign for Active Transportation aims to preserve and enhance the priority of and investment in trails, walking and bicycling—collectively "active transportation"—across America.

The overarching goal of the Campaign is to empower communities and partners around the country to each and collectively advocate for improved federal funding to make focused investments in infrastructure and programs to shift automobile trips to walking and biking.

A major Campaign landmark was reached when U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer (Ore.) introduced the Active Community Transportation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4722, the ACT Act) in March, 2010. The legislation attracted the support of 76 congressional members. The ACT Act built on the success of the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program in SAFETEA-LU.

Subsequent Campaign efforts have focused largely on the preservation the core programs that have made active transportation possible. These have included efforts to protect the Transportation Enhancements (TE) program from multiple attacks in the fall of 2011. TE is a wildly popular program and is the nation's largest funding source for trails, walking and bicycling.

As part of our organizing efforts, RTC maintains communications with partners in communities around the country. For an archived list of Campaign news and resources, please see the Campaign Communications page.

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Reports

Active Transportation for America Be sure to read RTC's ground-breaking Active Transportation for America report. The report quantifies, for the first time, the benefits our nation would realize with increased federal investment in walking and bicycling.

Active Transportation Beyond Urban Centers When we think about commuting to work or running errands from A to B, many assume that active transportation is only an option for people in large cities, where many destinations are close together and the street network is supplemented by transit. This report demonstrates that, in fact, active transportation is a part of life even far beyond urban centers. From tiny Burlington, Wyo. (pop. 250), to Elvis' hometown in Tupelo, Miss. (pop. 39,000), kids, seniors and working people walk and bicycle at rates that are not so different from what you find in metropolitan areas. Read the report online now, or download a pdf to print and read.