Encouraging Nonmotorized Transportation - This category includes activities that promote greater use of bicycling, walking (including access for persons with disabilities), and other nonmotorized modes of travel. Some example activities are:
Active living programs (i.e. encouraging more physical activity as part of trip choices)
Promoting accessibility for persons with disabilities
Encouraging greater use of bicycling and walking for all ages or for target groups
Enhancing the Environment for Human Activities - This category includes infrastructure changes that benefit human transportation to increase livability and quality of life. Some example activities are:
Changes in land use and transportation integration that promote nonmotorized trips (including those trips which are part of multimodal trip making)
Providing noteworthy facilities for bicycling and walking and integrating these facilities into highway and transit project development and design
Incorporating historic preservation activities (Section 106 Programmatic agreement successes with resolution of adverse effects) into project development and design
Beautification efforts that encourage human activities
Smart growth/sustainability initiatives
Transportation and land use integration
Safety and security improvements
Noise reduction
Creating or enhancing opportunities for recreational activities
Light pollution reduction (while still considering safety and security needs)
Process Improvements - This category includes changes in a process or procedure that allow for more efficiency of service delivery. Some example activities would be:
Acquisition and relocation innovations
Community oriented practices that yield tangible results through partnering and collaboration
Innovative approaches to context sensitive solutions
Collaborative decision making efforts which result in project solutions that gain public acceptance
Environmental Justice (e.g. recognizing and/or addressing EJ/Title VI issues in transportation documents and decision-making)
Scenario planning
Noteworthy community impact assessment techniques
Lessening the adverse impacts of property acquisition (e.g. innovative practices that still meet Federal regulations)
Initiatives to provide Decent, Safe, and Sanitary housing in communities with limited resources
Improving relocation services for homeowners and businesses by going beyond normal circumstances to accommodate unusual situations
Last resort housing requiring creative exploration and implementation
Marketing
Public participation and community outreach that encourages communities to take ownership and pride in their communities
Educational and Training Programs - This category includes efforts to inform individuals about issues or changes that should be made to improve the human environment.
Enhanced outreach to low income and minority communities, low-literacy and limited English proficiency populations, as well as the results of those activities in terms of Environmental Justice mitigation
Education and outreach - e.g. environmental education that focuses on connecting kids with nature, or education about the interaction between the human environment and the natural environment
Cultural awareness or cultural understanding
Tourism promotion (including heritage tourism)
Product Development - This category includes modeling and technology related activities that resulted in the creation or improvement of a tangible product or technology that improves everyday processes.
Creative use of GIS and other information technology initiatives
Visualization tools for communicating information
Visual imagery
Incident management systems
Travel Model Improvement Process (TMIP)
Modeling (land-use, people movement, etc.)
Others - This category includes those activities that do not fit in categories 1-5.
