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Safe Routes to School Success in Moscow, ID

Moscow, Idaho is a community of 25,000, located eight miles from Washington State with a bike path that connects the University of Idaho in Moscow to the University of Washington. Initially, active transportation efforts were focused more on enjoyment of the outdoors and connection with schools, with little attention paid to the safety component. This started to change roughly 10 years ago when the University of Idaho partnered with the City of Moscow on the area’s Safe Routes to School initiatives – the city took on engineering with the University covering the rest of the E’s. 

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Adapting School Siting to School Choice and Compact City Policies

Built environment factors that promote active school commutes (i.e., proximity to public transport, walkability) should be considered when making decisions about school siting.

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Policy: One Step on the Path to Walkable, Healthy Food Access

In too many neighborhoods, local stores carry no fresh produce or other healthy options, but getting to healthy foods is dangerous and inconvenient due to unsafe walking conditions and lack of access to public transit or private vehicles.

Safe Routes to School Full Steam Ahead in the Southwest

Safe Routes to School has grown leaps and bounds in the Phoenix area since the inception of the program. When MAP21 came along, Arizona DOT subcontracted the Safe Routes to School and Transportation Alternatives programs to MPOs and Councils of governments, which kept the ball rolling in the right direction. Phoenix has steamrolled ahead with a dedicated employee who works with 75 schools every year in the spring and fall with various pedestrian and biking events, including some law enforcement education. This work reaches tens of thousands of students each year.

Congress Kicked the Can to January

There was a pile-up of legislative priorities in December, and Congress ended up getting a tax bill through but punted action on spending levels, the DACA immigration policy, and stabilizing the health insurance market to 2018.  This means that January is now full of deadlines.

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Investing in Walking, Biking, and Safe Routes to School: A Win for the Bottom Line

This report looks at the cost savings and economic benefits of investments in active transportation and Safe Routes to School—including medical cost savings from improving safety, reducing costs of obesity due to increased physical activity, and increases in economic benefits such as increased rents or property values, tourism revenue, and more jobs.

Success in Cherokee Nation

Cherokee Nation Public Health works with 14 counties in tribal jurisdictions in northeastern Oklahoma. A community transformation grant from the CDC allowed their work to expand into Safe Routes to School roughly five years ago, laid out specifically as an objective in their community work plan. They work with local community coalitions to align their work plans, keeping Safe Routes to School part of the conversation at all levels where they are involved. They have also been able to introduce SRTS into rural areas that have infrastructure challenges due to access issues.

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Satisfaction with the commute: The role of travel mode choice, built environment and attitudes

Key takeaway:

  • Active commuters have the highest level of travel satisfaction.
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Health and greenhouse gas mitigation benefits of ambitious expansion of cycling, walking, and transit in California

Key takeaway:

  • By 2020, California aims to double walking and triple cycling from a 2010 baseline.
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Social inequalities in child pedestrian traffic injuries: Differences in neighborhood built environments near schools in Austin, TX, USA

Key takeaway:

  • Barriers to children’s pedestrian safety include longer block lengths, missing sidewalks, crosswalk density, and commercial land uses around schools.
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Cancer and obesity: Overweight and obesity are associated with cancer

Key takeaway:

  • Overweight and obesity are leading cancer risk factors. There are at least 13 different types of cancer associated with overweight and obesity, which comprise forty percent of all diagnosed cancers. 
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Climate change, weather and road deaths

Key takeaway:

  • More road deaths occur on warmer or wetter days. There was an unusual and sudden spike in road deaths in the US in 2015, which reversed a downward trend in road deaths over the past 35 years. Author argues that the 2015 road death spike is associated with the unusual temperature rise from 2014 to 2015.
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NYCrosswalk: The Ultimate Guide to Walking Safely in the Big Apple

Key takeaway:

  • This newly developed resource identifies the most dangerous intersections in New York City and provides data about pedestrian collisions in the city on a heat map.
It’s Crunch Time for Congress

With the remaining days of the year quickly winding down, Congress has a very short window to address a legislative pileup.

Congress has not yet reached agreement on spending levels for government agencies, with the current extension ending on December 8.  There is likely to be an extension for another few weeks or even until early January.   Negotiations have been challenging, as they include spending levels as well as a resolution to the end of the DACA immigration policy for young people—so a government shutdown is not out of the picture.

Landmark Vision Zero Court Decision Sets a New Path to Safe Streets
We’ve all experienced dangerous streets before. With traffic lights that don’t allow enough time to cross the street, crumbling sidewalks or none at all, and wide lanes that propel fast-moving vehicles, they make people who are walking or biking feel unwelcome and unsafe. Gerritsen Avenue in Brooklyn, New York is one of these notoriously dangerous roads with frequent speeding and related injuries.
Automated Vehicles: Back to the Future

When I was growing up, I thought we’d all be zooming around the skies, by now, in our automated bubble vehicles - like the Jetsons. Turns out, I wasn’t too far off.

Though not for flying around in the blue yonder, automated vehicles (AV) are in our very, very near future. Already, there are actual demonstration AVs on public roads - can you imagine a car or bus without a steering wheel? Vehicles like these are being tested now.

Launching Strong Safe Routes to School Programs with a Friendly Push: Cities and Schools Come Together to Address their Safe Routes to School

As the weather began to warm in spring 2017, something else was heating up too – the Safe Routes Partnership’s new Safe Routes to School Launch Program!  With five cities participating in the 2017 pilot year, the intensive program helped communities move to a new level of safety and support for students walking and biking to school.  The Safe Routes to School Launch Program is a joint project of the Safe Routes Partnership (Safe Routes Partnership) and UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), designe

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Understanding the Role of Equity in Active Transport Planning in the United States

Equity in active transportation is under-researched within academic scholarship and inconsistently applied in practice, but that is changing as it gains more salience in research and practice.

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The Relationship Between Objectively Measured Walking and Risk of Pedestrian—Motor Vehicle Collision

This is the first study that combines GPS, accelerometer, and travel diary data to measure pedestrian exposure to collision risk.

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Safe Routes to Healthy Food: Strategies for Local Governments

In too many neighborhoods, local stores carry no fresh produce or other healthy options, but getting to healthy foods is dangerous and inconvenient due to unsafe walking conditions and lack of access to public transit or private vehicles.