McCann Consulting creates clear, concise and compelling materials to promote smart growth, transportation reform, and active living.
Recent Work:
Complete Streets: Best Policy and Implementation Practices
Based on 30 case studies, this is the definitive guide to effective implementation of Complete Streets policies. Offered by APA's Planners Advisory Service.
The Regional Response to Federal Funding for Bicycle and Pedestrian Projects
Metropolitan areas vary widely in how much they use federal transportation funding to create bicycle and pedestrian facilities. This study assesses federal spending and uses case studies to identify five factors that influence effective spending of federal funds on bicycling and walking infrastructure. For the full study, click here.
Planning Complete Streets for an Aging America
A report from AARP that includes an assessment of every Complete Streets policy adopted through 2008.
Complete Streets and Context Sensitive Solutions Webinar
View this webinar featuring Barbara McCann and Michael Ronkin.
How Policy Influences Development, Listen to a
podcast of this panel sponsored by Island Press and the US Green Building
Council, Washington DC, Jan. 12, 2009
Complete
Streets: We Can Get There From Here
ITE Journal, May 2008 Vol. 78 (5).
Barbara McCann and John LaPlante
On Common Ground magazine, Summer 2008
Community Design for Healthy Eating: How Land Use and Transportation Solutions Can Help Published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this paper includes examples and recommendations.
See the Recent Publications page for more.
What McCann Consulting can do for you:
- Write compelling reports. I write and edit reports that get to the bottom line, clearly conveying the most important findings while remaining true to the research.
- Provide media advice. My reports have gained in all national news outlets. My background as a journalist at CNN means I can help clients be sure their information will attract media attention and stay 'on message.'
- Speak at your event. I give fast-moving, illustrated presentations on the connections between transportation, land use, and health, and on how to present these issues to the media. See my recent presentations.
- Relate personal concerns to policy choices. I make sure every sentence helps lead readers to understand how policy decisions will affect their everyday lives.
- Make important links. My expertise in transportation reform, land use, and public health policy arenas means I am able to find and incorporate information relevant to clients' needs.
- Create material to get the word out. I often create talking points, power-point presentations, web sites, and other materials to help clients broaden the impact of their reports.
Just for fun: View a short slide show, Cambodian Rules of the Road, from my bicycle trip through Cambodia!
Contact me at barbara@bmccann.net
