Slate's "Learning to Walk" Highlights Walking, Transportation Research from UAP's Ralph Buehler

Slate's "Learning to Walk" article by Tom Vanderbilt highlights the practice of walking and its relationship (and its paradoxes) with transportation planning.  It notes the research of UAP's Ralph Buehler, an Assistant Professor in Urban Affairs & Planning and a Faculty Fellow with the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech’s Alexandria Center.  Most of his research has an international comparative perspective, contrasting transport and land-use policies, transport systems, and travel behavior in Western Europe and North America, and this comparison is reflected in Vanberbilt's article.

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New Report: Making the Case for Investment in the Walking Environment

Living Streets has just released a new report entitled Making the Case for Investment in the Walking Environment.  The report was commissioned by the University of the West of England and it “brings together and evaluates the multiple health, economic, social and environmental benefits of investment in walking friendly public spaces.”