SRTS reports and more

Safe Kids Worldwide released a report Walking Safely: A Report to the Nation that examines 15-year trends in child pedestrian injuries and deaths in the U.S. The report reveals that while walking safety has improved overall for children since 1995, there are still a staggering number of children hit by cars. 

This study explores how school-level dynamics that underlie the planning and implementation of SRTS programs relate to the percentage of students who walk and bicycle between home and school.

ChangeLab Solutions has developed two complementary guides to help policymakers, advocates, and stakeholders consider the effects of attendance-based funding. 

This handbook provides strategies to help governing boards create positive school environments where students feel safe,supported, connected to others and prepared to learn. 

This report showcases how SRTS programs are resulting in the implementation of infrastructure improvements that close gaps in the non-motorized transportation network. Click here to read more about the four communities that were showcased – Avondale, AZ; Bozeman, MT; Knoxville, TN; and Miami, FL.

This report explores environmental health and Safe Routes toSchool through a review of the relationship between environmental health and school travel, a discussion on measuring the environmental health impacts of school travel, and five examples of methods used by SRTS programs to estimate the impact of their activities on local air quality. 

This report presents a school bicycle parking facility assessment tool and describes how to use it. It also presents ideas about how to make improvements to your bicycle parking facilities and shares the results from the original Eugene‐Springfield Safe Routes to School bicycle parking study.

This report provides an introduction to different types of walking facilities that can be constructedin rural areas. It includes case studies of a number of communities building creative and cost-effective walking facilities.

The Safe Routes Partnership launched the State Network Project in 2007 to influence state-level Safe Routes to School implementation and to leverage additional resources and build a supportive environment through other state-level policies. 

This study measures the impact of a walking school bus program on active transportation in an urban, low-income elementary school.