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This article reviews what is known about the built environment and its relationship to physical activity.

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This article focuses on the relationship between the built environment, travel behavior, and public health outcomes.

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This study uses an accelerometer and questions describing travel habits to evaluate physical activity levels among primary school children.

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This review analyzes the effects of school physical education programs on physical activity levels and attitudes toward physical education and physical activity in children and adults.

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This study reports that students who walk both to and from school accrue the most minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA).

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This article reviews research on the association between physical activity among school-aged children and academic outcomes.

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This article focuses on the relationship between the built environment, travel behavior, and public health outcomes.

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Adoption and maintenance of healthy lifestyles by substituting walking or biking for short trips currently taken by car could simultaneously improve health and reduce oil consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.

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This study examines the association between traffic-related pollution and childhood asthma among 208 children in 10 communities in Southern California.

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School proximity to students matters. Students with shorter walk and bike times to school are more likely to walk or bike.

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Walking and cycling are dangerous ways to get around American cities. Walking and cycling can be made safer, demonstrated by the lower fatality and injury rates in the Netherlands and Germany.

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Using objective measurement to investigate the physical activity patterns of children by mode of travel to school, this study reports that children who walk to school are significantly more active than those who travel by car.

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Because of travel behavior differences, school location has an impact on air emissions.

  Model Policy

This page with shared use agreements allows the user to explore this community health strategy to assist partners make change at the local level.

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This research study examines the social, educational, and psychological correlates of weight status in an adolescent population of 4,742 male and 5,201 female public school students in the 7th, 9th, and 11th grades.

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Key Takeaway: Short bouts of physical activity like walking may be associated with improved concentration among some children.

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This article reviews research about involvement in a regular physical activity program and academic performance with a focus on associated changes of cognitive or psychomotor function.

KelechiHi Safe Routes advocates! My name is Kelechi Uzochukwu, and as administrative associate for the Safe Routes Partnership, one of my responsibilities is to provide useful and up-to-date studies and publications related to the Safe Routes to School movement.

Brooke DriesseWelcome to the News and Events blog! My name is Brooke Driesse, and I’m the communications manager for the Safe Routes Partnership. I’ve been with the Safe Routes Partnership for four and half years now. It is hard to believe it has been that long, and that the organization has grown from three staff in 2007 to 22 staff today – what a ride!

Robert PingNext week I go to the National Bike Summit with several other staff and 800 of my closest friends to promote federal funding for bicycling (and walking). I find it frustrating that after decades of activism we still are not an accepted form of transportation in America in many places!