Imagine towns with less traffic … safer roads for walkers, runners, and cyclists … kids getting to school on their own … and everyone being able to get around regardless of whether they owned a car. See what you can do in your community to create this reality.
The VTrans Public Transit Section offers grants to municipalities and schools to assist in building a statewide outreach and advocacy network for the Go! Vermont Program. Who is eligible?
Get students outside, moving, having fun, and building good habits–while reducing vehicle exhaust and traffic around the school. Use this toolkit to organize this event at your school!
Email John Haffner or Ellen Hender to get your town or school involved!
Our Smart Commute Home Edition program worked with towns to lower residents’ transportation costs. Modeled after our successful workplace-based program, Home Edition followed a simple process to evaluate opportunities and develop tailored recommendations like new park-and-ride lots, improved marketing of carpool and bus resources, better telecommuting opportunities, electric vehicle charging stations, and more.
Smart Commute created a tailored commuting program designed to meet the needs of participating towns. Starting with a short survey of town residents, we established baseline data on commuting habits, developed a sustainable commuting plan, and worked with town officials and volunteers to implement it.
2014 Smart Commute Bradford Action Plan
2014 Smart Commute Hartford Action Plan
2015 Smart Commute Hartland Action Plan
2014 Smart Commute Norwich Action Plan
2015 Smart Commute Royalton Action Plan
2015 Smart Commute Sharon Action Plan
2014 Smart Commute Windsor Action Plan
2016 Smart Commute Action Plan for Sustainable Woodstock
Smart Commute helps Upper Valley schools improve the way students and staff travel to school. Our goal is to increase the number of students and staff who take the bus, walk, bike, or carpool to school and:
Smart Commute creates a tailored commuting program designed to meet the goals and interests of your school community. Starting with a short, online survey, we establish baseline data on commuting habits and then develop a sustainable commuting plan and work with you to implement it.
Lebanon School District
Frances C. Richmond Middle School
Marion Cross Elementary School
Hartford Memorial Middle School
Ottauquechee School
This checklist helps developers, planners, and town boards understand how to integrate biking, walking, and transit into their plan development. It was created with the help of the Upper Valley’s professional planning community and revised in 2014. Winner of the Planning Project of the Year Award from the NH Planners Association in 2008!
In Vermont and New Hampshire, transportation is the largest single source of greenhouse gases. This toolkit is for community volunteers who would like to locally tackle the climate impacts of our car-centered transportation system.
White River Junction Downtown Parking Study Final Report (2017)
This study for the Town of Hartford, Vermont, was produced by Vital Communities and RSG to examine parking constraints and options in the town’s burgeoning historic downtown.
A Look at the Municipal Vehicle Registration Fee (2015)
This study examines an optional $5 vehicle registration fee used by over a dozen New Hampshire municipalities to build local transportation improvement funds. Authorized under RSA 261:153 VI, the optional fee allows municipalities to establish local transportation improvement funds for projects as diverse as basic road maintenance, sidewalk construction, and public transit. The study concludes that many towns are seeing significant benefits from the optional fee and more are interested in adopting the optional program.
Managing Transportation Demand in the NH Route 120 Corridor: Policy, Finance, and Governance Options (2012)
This study examines how a commute trip reduction ordinance, parking revenue, and a corridor management authority could improve transportation options in the Route 120 corridor.
A Widening Gap (2007)
This study advocates for increased funding for transit services in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Operational Impact Study of Advance Transit Fixed-Route Bus Network (2005)
The “Operational Impact Study” examines the positive contribution of Advance Transit to maintaining clean air in the Upper Valley.
Learn how to enroll as a partner school and browse their downloadable toolkits, curriculum materials, and web-based seminars on the Program Resources page
NEW HAMPSHIRE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL
Learn how to enroll as a partner school and apply for startup grants
BIKE SKILLS AND LOANER PROGRAM FOR SCHOOLS
Local Motion is a Vermont-based nonprofit that promotes people-powered transportation and recreation
National Center on Safe Routes to School’s page on how to organize bike and walk to school days
Vermont’s website to connect commuters with carpools, vanpools, transit information, and bike and walk information
FEDERAL SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLNATIONAL CENTER ON SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLSAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP