Increase walking, biking and transit use by one or more of the following means:

• Qualified transportation fringe benefits explained.
• Move Minnesota provides a list of cost-effective, sustainable transportation incentives for employers and developers.
• See Best Practice #11 for information on bike and walking infrastructure planning and development.
• Need data? Gather bicycle and pedestrian traffic counts with a portable counter from your MnDOT district office.
• Climate Strategies that Work (U.S. DOT, 2024) provides actionable information for 27 transportation-related emission reduction strategies (including Active Transportation) through well-vetted guides detailing benefits, implementation steps, and resources.
• Report facility amenities that support multi-modal transportation like secure bike racks, showers, and lockers, under BPA 12.5.

Walk-friendly: 

• See MDH resources for Walk and Bike Friendly Communities like the Minnesota Walks (2016) - a framework for action for creating safe, convenient and desirable walking and rolling for all and the Inclusive Walk Audit Facilitator's Guide - a guide for observing and assessing the comfort and safety for all walkers.
• See the AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit and their Age Friendly Community program.
• Consider working with your businesses to improve pedestrian commercial traffic, conducting downtown pedestrian counts, street vitality indices, traffic projection studies, shopper intercept studies, traffic-shaping projects and retail recruitment campaigns.
• See the Walk Friendly Communities program supported by the national Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (NOTE: this program is not accepting new applicants until fall of 2023).
• See your city’s (or by any address) walk, bus, and transit scores at WalkScore.

Bike-friendly: 

• MN Dept. of Transportation resources for bicycle and pedestrian (see Minnesota Walks under the Planning tab) and transit design and planning.
• See biking tourism information.
• Bikeshare and Bicycle Libraries in Small Communities (Montana State University, 2021) shares the difference between bike programs and provides examples from communities across the U.S. 
• The Bicycle Friendly Community Resource Guide (Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota: 2017) is designed to guide communities through the process of becoming more bicycle friendly, starting with an assessment of your community.
• The Bicycle Friendly Community program of the League of American Bicyclists provides incentives, hands-on assistance, and award recognition for communities that actively support bicycling.
• The Bicycle Friendly Community Ideabook (League of American Bicyclists, 2023) is designed to help communities learn about projects, policies, and programs that have been successfully used by peer communities around the country to better support people riding bikes.
• See community workshops hosted by Bike MN.
• The Bicycle Network Analysis from the national non-profit People for Bikes helps cities assess the degree to which people can comfortably bike to the places they want to go.
• This E-Bike Impact Calculator Can Help Cities Accelerate E-Bike Adoption (CleanTechnica, 2023)

Age-friendly: 

• The AARP Age Friendly Community program aims to make the places where we live more livable and better able to support people of all ages. Join the network, access training, and find resources for creating a community action plan and taking action.
• See the World Health Organization’s Global Database of Age-friendly Practices.