COAST

Here are a few things I've created for the Coalition for Sustainable Transportation (COAST) and the Safe Routes To School program...

School walking guides
These maps show suggested walking routes to school, walking paths, and walking time isochrons (lines of constant walking time). The idea is to encourage walking by showing it to be possible and even easy.
PDF Mountain View Elementary School
PDF Cold Spring School
Walkability maps
Walk Score will return a "walkability score" between 0 (cars only) and 100 (walkers' paradise) for a given address. Although its algorithm is a little simplistic (it doesn't take into account presence of sidewalks, for example), its results, in aggregate, seem intuitively good. As evidence of this, below is a walkability map for Santa Barbara. Hat tip to Lee Byron for the idea.
PDF Downtown Santa Barbara Walkability

last modified 2009-11-09 16:49