Description

California’s Active Transportation Program (ATP) is a competitive, grant-based program that serves as a major funding stream for active transportation infrastructure in California. The program has six goals based on increasing nonmotorized transportation, safety, equity, sustainability, and health. Evaluation of the ATP’s administrative and scoring processes is crucial to ensure goals are met as equitably and efficiently as possible. Additionally, establishing a methodology for evaluating the safety impacts of active transportation projects is critically important. Through a series of interviews and an extensive review of the documents and rubrics of the program, this report discusses how the Active Transportation Program prioritizes and funds active transportation projects. California’s Active Transportation Program can serve as a model for other states, regions, and localities to follow. Building from this approach, the research team poses questions and considerations that could lead to program improvements, including increasing funding for the program, improving data collection, facilitating the funding of a larger number of smaller projects, and expanding long-term monitoring. After evaluating the program using qualitative methods, the research team quantitatively assessed the benefits of funded and completed projects. Variables in the proposed model included social equity, safety, urban form, active transport use, automobile dependence, existing facilities, street design, and land use.

Publication Date

8-2024

Publication Type

Report

Topic

Active Transportation, Planning and Policy, Sustainable Transportation and Land Use

Digital Object Identifier

10.31979/mti.2024.2230

MTI Project

2230

Keywords

Administrative Procedures, Transportation Infrastructure, Data Collection, Pedestrian Areas, Nonmotorized Transportation

Disciplines

Infrastructure | Transportation | Urban Studies and Planning

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