This study evaluates and assesses 10 Safe Routes to School traffic improvement projects in terms of expected outcomes for pedestrian and bicycle safety as well as for amount of walking.
This study uses an accelerometer and questions describing travel habits to evaluate physical activity levels among primary school children.
This review analyzes the effects of school physical education programs on physical activity levels and attitudes toward physical education and physical activity in children and adults.
This study reports that students who walk both to and from school accrue the most minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA).
This article focuses on the relationship between the built environment, travel behavior, and public health outcomes.
This article reviews research on the association between physical activity among school-aged children and academic outcomes.
This article focuses on the relationship between the built environment, travel behavior, and public health outcomes.
Adoption and maintenance of healthy lifestyles by substituting walking or biking for short trips currently taken by car could simultaneously improve health and reduce oil consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.
This study examines the association between traffic-related pollution and childhood asthma among 208 children in 10 communities in Southern California.
School proximity to students matters. Students with shorter walk and bike times to school are more likely to walk or bike.
Walking and cycling are dangerous ways to get around American cities. Walking and cycling can be made safer, demonstrated by the lower fatality and injury rates in the Netherlands and Germany.
Using objective measurement to investigate the physical activity patterns of children by mode of travel to school, this study reports that children who walk to school are significantly more active than those who travel by car.
Because of travel behavior differences, school location has an impact on air emissions.
This page with shared use agreements allows the user to explore this community health strategy to assist partners make change at the local level.
This research study examines the social, educational, and psychological correlates of weight status in an adolescent population of 4,742 male and 5,201 female public school students in the 7th, 9th, and 11th grades.
Key Takeaway: Short bouts of physical activity like walking may be associated with improved concentration among some children.
This article reviews research about involvement in a regular physical activity program and academic performance with a focus on associated changes of cognitive or psychomotor function.
Catcalling, leering, whistling, persistently asking for a woman’s name as she walks down the street – these are all forms of street harassment. Street harassment happens every day. When people experience street harassment, they often shrug it off, unsure of how to respond and not wanting to make a big deal out of it. But street harassment is a form of harassment and can affect people’s comfort, stress, and behavior, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), which is the final transportation agreement negotiated between the House and Senate. Once the Senate passes the agreement, expected by early next week, a new five-year transportation law will be in effect.
At a recent grantmaking conference, one of the speakers emphasized the role of evaluation by saying that if you can’t measure something, it doesn’t matter. Thanks to a new rule from the US Department of Transportation, all states will now be required to measure and be held accountable for bicycle and pedestrian safety.