The Federal Highway Administration's Office of Planning released a new handbook designed to help state departments of transportation (DOT) develop or update state pedestrian and bicycle plans. Based on research that included interviews with nine state DOTs and critical evaluations of documents from 15 states, the handbook comprehensively covers the statewide planning process, including:

• Plan inception and scoping
• Engaging stakeholders and the general public
• Developing goals, objectives and strategies
• Collecting and analyzing data
• Linking to the larger statewide transportation planning process
• Plan implementation

For each stage of the planning process, this handbook uses recent experiences and noteworthy practices from DOTs around the country, helping inform a new generation of statewide non-motorized planning and implementation.  Learn more about the handbook here.