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Active Transportation: Making the Link from Transportation to Physical Activity and Obesity
This report from Active Living Research, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, summarizes the most up-to-date research regarding how transportation investments encourage healthful activity. The brief details how increasing access to public transportation, making streets and sidewalks safer, and developing trails and bike lanes affect people’s health and how much they bike and walk for transportation.