Guides and toolkits
Top tips for Councillors
- Prioritise– Allocate resources, including people and money, and communicate why you are investing in walking and riding
- Policy – Include in policy outcomes and actions across all areas
- Projects – Support projects and programs that include improvements to walking and riding
- Pilots – Try new approaches and learn and adapt
- Promote – Share the benefits of walking and riding and encourage others, including the state government, to do more via advocacy
- Partner – Find and create allies, even if not in full agreement
- Persist! – Endurance and perseverance are almost always essential to create change.
Top Tips for Project Delivery
- Engagement - Early and ongoing engagement to understand what people want and what are their concerns
- Integration– integrate walking and riding initiatives with wider streetscape upgrades
- Communicate clearly what is being delivered, including images
- Purpose- Clear advice on why this proposal is important and what it is specifically trying to achieve
- Safer speeds are often a great option to improve safety and amenity
- All voices, not just opponents, are engaged and help people see the project through other people’s eyes
- Whole organisation – integrated internal governance
- Pilots and trials to get change going and learn and adapt
- Flexibility- keep measuring, listening and adjusting to address issues.
Top Tips for working with schools
- Connect with schools, parents and carers
- Have a written plan
- Encourage student engagement and leadership
- Make it fun with rewards, celebrations and share success
- Identify and share walking and riding routes
- Identify barriers and remove them - even small steps creates progress
- Build momentum, then networks and partnerships.
Top Tips for communicating
Australian Transport and Infrastructure Council
- Australian Transport and Infrastructure Council Australian Transport Assessment and Planning Guidelines M4 Active Trave] (PDF - 2.18MB)
- Australian Transport and Infrastructure Council Australian Transport Assessment and Planning Guidelines M5 Travel Behaviour Change
Austroads
Cycling and Walking Australia and New Zealand
- Benefits of Lower Speed Limits (PDF - 1.15MB)
- Costs of Transport and Physical Inactivity (PDF - 290KB)
- Economic Benefits of Walking and Cycling (PDF - 248KB)
- Health Benefits of Active Transport (PDF - 1.02MB)
- More People Bike Riding – Keys to Success (PDF - 457KB)
- More People Walking – Keys to Success (PDF - 452KB)
- Safety (PDF - 758KB)
Department of Transport and Planning (Victoria)
Heart Foundation
- Healthy Active by Design
- HABD checklist tool
- Resources (includes case study videos and interviews)
- Active Streets statement (PDF - 435KB)
National Road Safety Partnership Program
- Construction Trucks Toolbox Talk – Bicycle Riders Package
- Construction Trucks Toolbox Talk – Blind Spots Package
- Construction Trucks Toolbox Talk – Pedestrians Package
Transport for NSW
- NSW Guide to Walkable Public Space (PDF - 8.65MB)
- Walking Space Guide Towards Pedestrian Comfort and Safety
VicHealth
- VicHealth - Framing walking and bike riding message guide (PDF - 2.08MB)
- VicHealth – Framing walking and bike riding tip sheet (PDF - 1.14MB)
- VicHealth - Walk to School - assets and resources
- VicHealth - Walk to School - LGA Resource Guide (PDF - 1.0MB)
- VicHealth – VicHealth Local Government Partnership
VicRoads
Victoria Walks
- Victoria Walks - Audit tool for assessing physical accessibility of outdoor walking paths (PDF - 377KB)
- Victoria Walks – Applying Nudge theory to walking: designing behavioural interventions to promote walking (PDF - 2.63MB)
- Victoria Walks – Change to Walking program
- Victoria Walks – Guide to measuring walking
- Victoria Walks - Key evidence to support council planning (PDF - 1.41MB)