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

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

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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.

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

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

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. 

NHTSA has put together this Bicycle Safety Activity Kitto provide parents, caregivers, teachers, community leaders, and children with tools to learn the important basics about bicycle safety. This kit can be used in school or community bicycle safety programs or in conjunction with Safe Routes to School programs. 

ULI’s Building Healthy Places Toolkit: Strategies for Enhancing Health in the Built Environment outlines evidence-supported opportunities for enhancing health outcomes in real estate developments. 

This guide is written for those interested in planning a bicycle safety skills event for children either at school or at other community venues. It gives you a step-by-step approach to planning and initiating a bicycle safety skills event, including instructions and resources for setting up a course.

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.     

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Introduction
Joint use or shared use of public school facilities provides community access to facilities for varied purposes. 

Community Transformation Grant awardees in North Carolina, Illinois, and Wisconsin promoted joint use agreements (formal agreements between 2 parties for the shared use of land or facilities) as a strategy to increase access to physical activity in their states.

In over 17,000 schools around the country, these programs are making it easier and safer for students to be healthy by walking or bicycling to school. 

Safe Routes to School programs can succeed in rural areas. But ensuring that schoolchildren can get the benefits of walking and bicycling to school in rural communities requires dealing with some challenges and barriers that may be different than in other areas.

The purpose of this survey is to learn more about the shared, community use of schools as places for physical activity, as well as assessing access to facilities that support healthy food in programming. 

This resource is designed to address some of the most frequently asked questions that arise while adopting shared use policy or implementing shared use agreements.

This resource is designed to address the variance in terminlogies when referring to shared use. 

This webinar explores shared use agreements as a means to support public health utilizing evidence-based research, best practices and lessons learned from the field in Los Angeles County. 

This webinar from March 18, 2015 discusses the topic of biking and communities of color.

When it comes to walking and bicycling, rural communities can be the best of environments and the worst of environments. Historically, small rural towns were very walkable. With small main streets and compact development, it was easy to walk from place to place while running errands.