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 May is National Bike Month, and RPC is working with area businesses, municipalities, SRPC and SABR on a slate of activities to encourage Seacoasters to try alternative commutes. The Seacoast’s Annual Bike/Walk to Work Day is Friday May 19. Ride your bike or walk to work and stop in at one of eleven free Commuter Breakfasts around the region. Breakfast locations include Dover, Durham/UNH, Exeter, Kittery, Newmarket, North Hampton, Pease TradePort, Portsmouth, Rye and Stratham.
To add some friendly competition, commuteSMARTSeacoast is holding their annual spring Business to Business (B2B) Challenge May 1– 31. Sign up your workplace, and rally your co-workers to bike, walk, carpool, ride transit or telecommute for a day, a few days, or all month.
In 2016 over 450 commuters walked or bicycled to one of the breakfast events; and the Corporate Commuter Challenge engaged 20 companies and avoided 3,382 auto miles and 3,281 lbs of CO2. Between 2000 and 2013 the City of Portsmouth actually had one of the largest increases in bicycle commuting in the country, increasing 536% between 2000 and 2013 (U.S. Census, League of American Bicyclists)
For more information on Bike/Walk to Work Day visit: www.seacoastbikes.org/bike-walk-to-work-day.html
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The RPC is in the process of establishing regional transportation project priorities for the 
The RPC has started the 2015 land use update. This process uses 1’ aerial imagery acquired by NHDOT in Spring of 2015. By comparing the 2010 land use to the new imagery, the RPC can detect land use changes and update the land use dataset accordingly. For example, if a 2010 classified area was determined to be agriculture but the 2015 imagery shows a residential use, we would update the land use of this area to be residential. Approximately 32% of the RPC region has been processed so far. After this update is complete we will be able to provide land use acreage by category and the change in growth for each town. For example, in Hampton Falls, we have seen a nearly 8% decrease in active agriculture while an increase of around 3% in residential. The land use dataset is comparable to past land use datasets available in the region. Previous land use datasets are from 1962, 1974, 1998, 2005 and 2010. This land use dataset is a required input for impervious surface mapping to be done in the future. The updated land use dataset is expected to be completed before the end of the year. RPC's current land use maps are available by municipality on the RPC 
The February 2017 Association of 
