Measuring What We Value: Policies to Prioritize Public Health and Build Prosperous Regions

February 2017

By: American Public Health Association, Erin Evenhouse, Rochelle Carpenter, Transportation for America

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Built Environment and Health

This guide reviews four policy levers that metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) can use to encourage active transportation and improve health outcomes:

  1. Dedicated funding for active transportation
  2. Performance measures to better assess project benefits
  3. Planning and policies that support regional goals
  4. Improved data and measuring what matters

Each chapter includes several case studies from MPOs across the U.S. to show what it looks like in practice.