Safety (traffic and crime)

$33 Million Investment is Foundation’s Largest Investment in Community-Based Solutions to Prevent Childhood Obesity

For those concerned that green spaces may foster crime and illegal activity, evidence now exists that the opposite may be true. When adjacent to residential areas, green spaces have been shown to create neighborhoods with fewer violent and property crimes and where neighbors tend to support and protect one another.

The Clearinghouse provides resources relating to crime prevention through environmental design.

This guide contains a compilation of vehicle and traffic laws that affect pedestrian or bicycle safety.

The CPTED Page was created as a means to perennially provide access to information relating to crime prevention through environmental design.

A checklist to help walking advocates figure out just how walkable their community is and to identify what needs fixing.

This comprehensive toolkit has been designed to assist citizens in initiating, customizing and implementing a Safe Routes to School program. It discusses the 4E's model of Encouragement, Education, Engineering and Enforcement.

This site provides a variety of information and tools including the federal "Weed and Seed" program as well as a variety of other technical assistance and funding resources.

The PBIC is a clearinghouse for information about health and safety, engineering, advocacy, education, enforcement and access and mobility. The PBIC serves anyone interested in pedestrian and bicycle issues, including planners, engineers, private citizens, advocates, educators, police enforcement and the health community.

This page provides case studies of successful, community-based crime prevention partnerships.