City Data
City Fact Sheets provide a snapshot of biking and walking data in each city included in the Benchmarking Project. Each Fact Sheet highlights key data on rates of active commuting, public health, road safety, and other topics explored in-depth on data.bikeleague.org. These Fact Sheets are meant to provide an entry point to the data available…
Read More →Getting consistent data on infrastructure for people biking and walking is difficult. There are often no statewide reporting requirements and there are no federal reporting requirements, so each city maintains its own data in its own manner. For an exploration of how cities maintain bicycle network data, please see our report Benchmarking Bike Networks. Data…
Read More →Reported Spending on Biking & Walking Data on spending and spending targets appears more difficult to obtain than other data. Cities that reported their level of spending on bicycling and walking projects showed a wide range in the amount spent on bicycling and walking projects. Among large cities, five cities reported funding of less than…
Read More →Cities show their support for bicycling and walking in a variety of ways. This section looks at indicators of support such as bicycle and pedestrian education in schools, staff working on bicycling and walking-related activities, participation in national award programs, and organizational involvement in bicycling and walking-related issues by League of American Bicyclist (League) member…
Read More →This section – Cities: Plans and Policies – looks at public policies created by cities and published through a formal process. These plans and policies provide a basis for coordination between a city and other entities so that all stakeholders involved in transportation decision making have a common understanding of the goals of the city…
Read More →Over time, bicyclist and pedestrian deaths have become more prevalent in urban areas. In 1975, 50% of bicyclist deaths and 59% of pedestrian deaths were in urban areas. In 2020, 79% of bicyclist deaths and 82% of pedestrian deaths were in urban areas. The cities included in the Benchmarking project are the 50 most populous…
Read More →This section – Cities: Public Health Indicators & Biking & Walking – looks at chronic disease rates that often have a relationship to physical activity. Not all cities reported elsewhere on this site are included in the following tables because the data source for chronic diseases used, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral…
Read More →This page looks at over- or under-representation of people of color and low-income commuters among those who walk to work or take transit to work. Unless otherwise noted, the figures on this page were updated in 2021. Walking, biking, and taking transit all provide options to get to work that tend to be cheaper than…
Read More →Active commuting on this page means bicycling, walking, and taking public transit to work as reported by the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Numerous studies have found that people who take public transit walk more than people who drive, with one review finding that transit use was associated with 8 to 33 additional minutes of…
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