About Active Transportation Planning
SPC’s approach to pedestrian and bicycle planning places an emphasis on active transportation. Use of the term “active transportation” highlights the growing recognition of the connection between public health outcomes and transportation planning.
Active transportation is human-powered transportation that engages people in healthy physical activity while they travel from place to place. People walking, bicycling, using wheelchairs, skateboarding, and rollerblading are engaged in active transportation. Active transportation supports transit use, since many people reach transit stops using active travel modes.
SPC’s Active Transportation Forum provides a venue for members to identify local and regional bicycle and pedestrian issues and share information on needs and opportunities. Through collaboration supported by this Forum, SPC facilitates regional activities to improve conditions for walking and biking. The Forum includes representatives from SPC-member counties, the City of Pittsburgh, transit agencies, PennDOT, public health departments, trail organizations, and organizations representing pedestrians, bicyclists and persons with disabilities.
Links
 Healthy Ride Bike Station, City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County
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Active Transportation Video Overview
Leann Chaney talks about SPC's Active Transportation Forum and remarks on some of its many recent accomplishments and activities.
2016 Activities
Bicycle Friendly Business
SPC was recently designated as a Bicycle Friendly Business, joining a cutting-edge group of nearly 1,200 businesses, government agencies and Fortune 500 companies across the United States that are transforming the American workplace.
Bicycle and Pedestrian Data Collection Program
SPC launched a pilot bicycle data collection program in summer 2016, which involved collecting automated bicycle counts at locations in the region, including trails and mixed traffic settings. The pilot program will provide a foundation for development of an ongoing non-motorized data collection program.
 Hoodlebug Trail, Indiana County.
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