Promoting walking and cycling: a toolkit of policy options – WHO
This WHO toolkit presents a comprehensive policy framework to help countries unlock the wide-ranging benefits of walking and cycling. Developed for policy-makers and stakeholders across sectors – including health, transport, urban planning, environment, and education – it offers evidence-based policy options and implementation guidance to promote safe, accessible, and inclusive walking and cycling environments.
May 2025
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“This toolkit presents a compendium of policy options for walking and cycling, highlighting the multiple benefits that promoting and enabling safe walking and cycling for recreation and transport can bring to individuals, communities, the environment, and the economy.”
— World Health Organization
“This toolkit outlines seven strategic policy options for countries to consider implementing that collectively aim to enable safer walking and cycling for people of all ages and abilities, and to support maintaining and/or increasing levels of walking and cycling either for transport or active recreation in countries worldwide.”
— World Health Organization
“Walking and cycling are essential to healthier people, safer roads, cleaner air, and more inclusive cities.”
— World Health Organization
“Case studies are included to showcase real-world examples of how these policy options are being successfully put into practice.”
— World Health Organization
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