Pedestrian Power
This term describes how easy, safe, and friendly an area is for people traveling by foot.
What is walkability?
This designated street lane is reserved exclusively for bicyclists to keep them safe from cars.
What is a bike lane?
These everyday destinations include grocery stores, banks, schools, and parks that residents need to visit regularly.
What are diverse uses?
This piece of equipment allows owners of battery-powered vehicles to plug in and recharge.
What is an Electric Vehicle (EV) charging station?
This arrangement involves multiple coworkers or neighbors sharing a single ride to the same destination.
What is carpooling?
This numerical score ranks a location's friendliness to pedestrians based on distance to nearby amenities.
What is a Walk Score?
This system allows users to rent a bicycle short-term from a public station and return it to another.
What is bike-sharing?
This environmental term describes a site that was previously built on, as opposed to untouched green space.
What is a brownfield (or previously developed land)?
This green building strategy reduces the total number of parking spaces built, encouraging alternative travel.
What is reduced parking footprint?
This broad term describes travel methods like walking, biking, or taking the bus instead of driving alone.
What is alternative transportation (or green commuting)?
This type of infrastructure includes ramps, tactile paving, and wide paths to ensure everyone can navigate the neighborhood.
What is accessible design?
This public transit vehicle operates on fixed rails, usually at street level, running through city streets.
What is a light rail (or streetcar)?
This land-use strategy mixes housing types, businesses, and civic spaces within the same building or neighborhood.
What is mixed-use development?
This type of shared vehicle service allows residents to rent a car by the hour, reducing the need for personal car ownership.
What is car-sharing?
This workplace or residential perk provides financial support or free passes for train and bus systems.
What are subsidized transit passes?
This safety design uses trees, parked cars, or concrete barriers to protect people on foot from moving traffic.
What is pedestrian buffers?
This LEED metric measures the distance a resident can walk to a transit stop, usually capped at a 1/4 or 1/2 mile.
What is walking distance?
This metric calculates the number of intersections per square mile to measure how connected a community is.
What is intersection density?
This practice reserves the best parking spots closest to the building entrance for eco-friendly vehicles.
What is preferred parking?
This building amenity provides a place for bike commuters to clean up and change clothes before starting their day.
What are changing rooms and showers?
This geometric street pattern features interconnected routes that give walkers multiple ways to reach a destination.
What is a grid network?
This acronym stands for a neighborhood design that clusters housing, jobs, and shops around a major transit station.
What is TOD (Transit-Oriented Development)?
This type of site consists of abandoned industrial or commercial properties that may contain hazardous pollutants.
What is a brownfield?
This dark, heat-absorbing property of traditional asphalt parking lots raises temperatures in urban areas.
What is the urban heat island effect?
This type of formal program is created by property managers to reduce single-occupancy vehicle trips among residents.
What is a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plan?