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  Model Policy

Incorporating shared use into school wellness policies helps students, parents, teachers, and other school district staff understand the important role shared use can play in increasing opportunities for physical activity and creating a healthier school environment. 

  Fact Sheet
How Data and Maps Can Illuminate Transportation and Equity

This fact sheet is a companion to At the Intersection of Active Transportation and Equity: Joining Forces to Make Communities Healthier and Fairer. 

  Fact Sheet
Addressing Violence and Crime in Your Community

This fact sheet is a companion to Taking Back the Streets and Sidewalks: How Safe Routes to School and Community Safety Initiatives Can Overcome Violence and Crime.

  Model Policy

This model policy focuses on one particular shared use mechanism, the “Open Use Policy.” 

  Journal Article

Guidance for parents and caregivers to teach their children (ages 4 and above) safe walking behavior.

  Fact Sheet

This fact sheet is a companion to At the Intersection of Active Transportation and Equity: Joining Forces to Make Communities Healthier and Fairer. 

  Research

Across the country, many Native American communities lack safe and affordable spaces for their children to exercise and play. 

  Webinar

This webinar from June 25, 2015 discusses strategies to make routes to school safe from violence and crime.

  Research

Key takeaway: Safe Routes to School initiatives can contribute to creating multi-faceted “activity-friendly” environments that provide a range of societal co-benefits; filling gaps in the evidence of co-benefits will further support the importance of active transportation to school.

  Research

Key Takeaway: Community-based participatory research activities that engage youth can help create a place-based understanding of how youths perceive their neighborhood environments and inform interventions for improvements.

  Webinar

The Safe Routes Ohio Network put together a series of Lunch and Learns to increase awareness around shared use in Ohio. 

  Research

KEY TAKEAWAY:

  • Active transportation and physical activity in rural environments may be difficult to achieve, but context-sensitive solutions can help connect residents with other recreational opportunities through schools and other locations.
  Research
Recommendations for Physical Education and Physical Activity Promotion in Schools

KEY TAKEAWAY:

  • Walking and biking to school is an important part of multi-component comprehensive school physical activity programs (CSPAPs).
  Research
2010 National Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey

KEY TAKEAWAY:

  • Walking is the most common form of physical activity among high school students, and most students do not meet recommended physical activity guidelines.
  Research

KEY TAKEAWAY:

  • Park access for youth varies by race/ethnicity, urban-rural classification, median education, and median household income of their home census block group.
  Research
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

KEY TAKEAWAY:

Walking groups among adults can result in improved health outcomes, including blood pressure, heart rate, body fat, BMI, cholesterol, oxygen uptake, and 6-minute walk time.

  Toolkit

These downloadable handouts are designed for use by community groups, families, or youth to assess neighborhood safety for bicycling. They serve as an interactive engaging tool to heighten awareness and to assist with goals for increasing safety for bicycling.     

  Fact Sheet, Evaluation, Report, Research

This factsheet provides the most recent final bicycle fatality and injury data in relation to motor-vehicle related crashes.

  Research

Key takeaway: SRTS has increased walking and biking and improved safety and can decrease health and school transport costs.

  Toolkit, Case Study
A How-To Guide

The primary objective of this guide is to provide tips and guidance on how States and communities can effectively deploy pedestrian safety enforcement operations to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities.