Metropolitan Area Transportation Planning for Healthy Communities

December 2012

By: Haley Peckett, Lindsey Morse, U.S. Department of Transportation, William Lyons

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/health_in_transportation/resources/healthy_communities/mpohealth12122012.pdf
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Built Environment and Health

This report provides guidance to metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) on how to improve health outcomes through transportation planning. It introduces a holistic framework for health, discusses regulation and funding sources, and shares case studies from MPOs in Nashville, Puget Sound, Sacramento, and San Diego. Chapter 4 shares the report’s main findings and recommendations.