The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is developing the first-ever Indiana Active Transportation Plan (IN-ACT) to guide future planning, investment, and coordination for walking, bicycling, and rolling across the state. The plan will identify statewide active transportation needs, opportunities, and strategies to support safe, practical, and connected travel options for Hoosiers and visitors. Active transportation includes walking, bicycling, using mobility devices, and other human-powered or low-speed ways of traveling.
Project Schedule
How to Get Involved
We invite you to attend our public open house and/or complete our online survey. Share your thoughts on active transportation issues, community needs, and opportunities for improvement.
Goals
Reduce fatalities, serious injuries, and high-risk conditions for people walking, biking, and rolling.
Safety
Support walking, biking, and rolling as opportunities to promote physical activity, mental well-being, cleaner air, and healthier communities across generations.
Health & Wellness
Create an interconnected, comfortable, continuous, and quality active transportation network that links people, communities, and destinations.
Network Connectivity
Advance active transportation investments that strengthen local economies, support tourism and outdoor recreation, improve community vibrancy, and contribute to quality of life across Indiana communities.
Economic Competitiveness & Quality of Life
Make walking, biking, and rolling practical, reliable, and accessible travel options for Hoosiers and visitors of all ages and abilities, especially in areas where transportation options are limited or active transportation needs are greatest.
Mobility For All
Integrate active transportation as a consistent consideration in INDOT's planning, design guidance, project development, funding, and maintenance practices.
Operational Integration
Frequently Asked Questions
Active transportation includes walking, bicycling, using wheelchairs and other mobility assistive devices, and other human-powered ways of traveling.
The Indiana Active Transportation Plan, or IN-ACT, is INDOT’s first statewide plan focused on walking, bicycling, rolling, and other active ways of traveling. The plan will identify needs, opportunities, and strategies to help make active transportation safer, more practical, and better connected across Indiana.
IN-ACT will provide a statewide framework to guide future planning, investment, coordination, policies, and decision-making. It will not develop detailed engineering designs for individual streets, intersections, trails, or other specific projects.
IN-ACT is a statewide planning-level plan. It is not intended to prepare engineering plans or determine the exact design of sidewalks, bicycle facilities, crossings, trails, or other infrastructures.
The plan may identify corridors, areas, connections, or types of infrastructures that should receive additional consideration. More detailed studies would be needed to determine whether a specific improvement is feasible and what its final design should be.
Public input will be considered alongside available data, technical analysis, agency coordination, and statewide planning priorities. Feedback may help inform the plan’s goals, performance measures, strategies, and prioritization tool. Because IN-ACT is a statewide plan, individual comments will be evaluated within the broader context of needs across the entire state.
How to Get Involved
Share your thoughts on active transportation issues, community needs, and opportunities for improvement.
