Now that the fall season is here and commute routines are back in full swing, it's the perfect time to remind students and employees in your community about the simple steps they can take to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.

This fall, It All Adds Up to Cleaner Air is providing a number of materials and online resources built on the theme of choosing alternate modes of transportation.

What makes bicycling a good alternate mode of transportation? What activities are being organized to promote bicycling and what techniques are the most effective?

 Take mass transit
 
 Ride your bike or walk instead of driving
 
 Share a ride or car pool
 
 Download our flyer with these three fall tips

 
Did You Know: Carpooling, using transit, walking, or bicycling—just one day a week for a year—can save the typical commuter about 1,200 miles on their vehicle and about $567 in total driving costs.

In mid 2003, the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District, a three-year Community Partner of It All Adds Up to Cleaner Air, had an important message to get across. All they needed was a low cost platform and a crowd.

When thinking of ways to make a little leftover grant money ($250) stretch, Community Partner Kelley Walters, Chattanooga - Hamilton County APCB, thought about purchasing some bumper stickers for a new fleet of retrofitted school buses in her community. To keep the cost down, Walters turned to the Exchange and asked if anyone might have a current design they'd be willing to share. Within hours, the leads poured in.

In addition to providing communities across the country with air quality and transportation marketing and public relations materials, tools, and guidance, the It All Adds Up to Cleaner Air initiative provides links to other resources communities can draw upon when designing their public education programs.