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In this study, we attempt to estimate the impact of SUA adoption on school district expenditures.
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This online resource is created to explore shared use agreements in the school setting. The resource currently focuses on work in Mississippi, Minnesota and Massachusetts.
DC has the 9th highest childhood obesity rate in the United States. Shared Use is an avenue to address childhood obesity by increasing opportunities for physical activity in every community.
An estimated 2,368 pedestrians were killed in the first half of 2015, an increase of 10% over the same time period the prior year. The preliminary 2015 data were provided by GHSA's member State Highway Safety Office members.
This brief examines how likely children and teenagers younger than age 18 live in communities that have adopted shared use agreements in the form of resolutions, ordinances, or formal agreements, and the partnerships involved with those agreements.
This webinar discusses the opportunities and challenges to advancing Safe Routes to School in tribal communities.
Tribal communities have much to gain from increasing active transportation. But they can experience particular challenges to making policy and on-the-ground changes necessary to support active transportation and Safe Routes to School.
EPA developed the Smart School Siting Tool to help school agencies and other local government agencies work together to better align school siting and other community development decisions.
This factsheet helps communities understand how to use the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) to support healthy community design and active transportation.
This brief provides an overview of the unique considerations in implementing Safe Routes to School in tribal communities.
"Walking as a Practice" examines four ways in which individuals and organizations are engaging in walking.
In this webinar, the Safe Routes Partnership’s federal policy lead, Margo Pedroso, will review the changes to TAP along with other provisions in the FAST Act that provide opportunities for Safe Routes to School funding and policies that make communities safer for walking and bicycling. This webinar will include a substantial Q&A session.
Several national and governmental organizations recommend increasing community use as a strategy to increase opportunities for physical activity.14,15, 16
Information from a workshop held in Vancouver, WA, on January 6, 2017.
The “Safe Routes for All” video highlights the many benefits of a Safe Routes to School program which educates and encourages students and families to travel to school safely, as well as promotes the creation of walkable/bikeable communities for all.
Communities are working on many strategies to make it easier and safer for people to be physically active. One important place for collaboration and advocacy is around making sure that people can safely walk and bicycle to parks – an approach known as safe routes to parks.