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This study identifies correlations between walking behaviors to school and relevant policy implications.

This article reviews the Partnership for Active Communities efforts to bring together multidisciplinary organizations to create a 5-year project to support increased walking and bicycling in the Sacramento, CA area.

This study examines 496 parental questionnaires to evaluate the transport practices of school children and perceived factors that influenced parental decisions regarding their child’s use of active transport to commute to school.

This article highlights Safe Routes to School as a promising strategy for increasing youth physical activity and improving health equity.

This study tests and refines a conceptual model between the individual and the environment in rural communities.

This study addressed the importance of the development of high-quality measures to understand the impact of the built environment on physical activity.

Active commuting to school provides regular exercise, which can improve asthma symptoms. Little is known about how children with asthma travel to school.

This brief summary of evidence of benefits from being physically active reveals that national surveillance data indicate a substantial portion of youth and adults in the United States do not meet recommendations.

This study analyzes data from a sample of 4,156 metropolitan Atlanta residents who were interviewed by telephone and kept two-day travel diaries.

In this study of children aged 8-10, for every additional park located within a half-mile of their home, girls are twice as likely to walk to school.

Physical Activity Across the Curriculum (PAAC) was a three-year cluster randomized controlled trial to promote physical activity and diminish increases in overweight and obesity in elementary school children.

This research brief presents an overview of findings demonstrating the potential impact of infrastructure investments and other transportation programs on walking and bicycling for transportation, and on related health outcomes.

Active living has four domains: transportation, recreation, occupation, and household.

This brief summarizes research on active transport to school, physical activity levels and health outcomes.

This article highlights Safe Routes to School as a promising strategy for increasing youth physical activity and improving health equity.

The CDC initiated the Common Community Measures for Obesity Prevention Project (the Measures Project) to identify and recommend a set of obesity prevention strategies and corresponding suggested measurements that local governments and communities can use to plan, implement, and monitor initiatives to prevent obesity.

This article reviews 13 studies that explore whether children who actively commute to school have increased physical activity levels or a healthier body weight.

This paper provides insight on whether bicycling for everyday travel can help US adults meet the recommended levels of physical activity and what role public infrastructure may play in encouraging this activity.

The Borough/City/District partnership has effectively maximized the use of their respective facilities to meet community and student needs, beyond what each could do alone. 

Nearly a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2007 were transportation-related; each gallon of gasoline used in transportation emits 20 lbs of CO2 into our atmosphere.