Mission Statement

WTB-TAM’s mission is to champion sustainable mobility. This mission is advanced through the study and promotion of national and international best practices including integrating modalities, model community programs, funding, design standards, safety, maintenance and education. WTB-TAM works to demonstrate that investment in bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure is the optimal transportation solution and that integration of non-motorized transportation with transit is the cornerstone of a sustainable transportation system.

WTB-TAM is a consensus-building organization that studies international best practices and educates diverse decision-making groups about sustainable mobility. WTB-TAM acts as a liaison with local, federal and state governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, the public, organizational constituents, the business community and similar groups in foreign countries to promote integrated bicycle and pedestrian transportation.

Vision

WTB-TAM’s work spans geographies locally, nationally, and internationally. Locally, our objective is to complete an interconnected network of safe and separated bicycle routes in Marin County, California. This network consists of both primary, intra-county routes which follow in the path of historical railroads, as well as secondary or “connector” routes that tie every neighborhood, activity center, and school into the overall network. The hope is that with this bikeable network in place, enough Marin residents can be convinced to leave their cars at home and walk, take transit, or ride a bike for a greater number of their daily trips. This behavior change in turn leads to a modal shift towards greener, cleaner modes of transportation, a shift that is necessary to “move the needle” and reduce our ecological footprint.

WTB-TAM celebrates Marin’s transportation network — with its combination of bike paths, roads, trains, and ferries — as a National Model for Sustainable Transportation. We work with communities across the country — and with national organizations like Rails to Trails and People for Bikes — to spread Marin’s National Model to the entire United States. We also look to other national success stories such as Davis CA, Portland OR, Minneapolis MN, Boulder CO, Indianapolis IN, and Greenville, SC for inspiration and studies in best practices.

Finally, our goal of a clean and inhabitable planet have taken us beyond the confines of the United States to study bicycle infrastructure and design in places such as The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, China, and Taiwan. We have worked tirelessly to translate international best practices into guidelines that can be applied and replicated in the United States. But the heart and soul of our international work is the WTB-TAM International Study Trips, during which we bring delegations of American decision-makers to Europe to experience the world’s best bicycle designs for themselves.

What We Do