The Victoria Transport Policy Institute has updated and expanded its "Evaluating Active Transportation Benefits and Costs: Guide to Valuing Walking and Cycling Improvements and Encouragement Programs."

This report describes methods for evaluating the benefits and costs of active transportation (walking, cycling, and their variants, also called non-motorized and human-powered travel). It describes various types of benefits, costs and methods for measuring them. These include direct benefits to users from improved conditions for active transportation, various benefits to society from increased walking and cycling activity, reduced motor vehicle travel, and more compact and multi-modal community development. It discusses active transportation demands and ways to increase walking and cycling activity. The analysis presented in the report indicates that many benefits of active transport tend to be overlooked or undervalued in conventional economic evaluation of transportation infrastructure and systems.