This curriculum was developed to be used in physcial education classes for all grades in Arkansas. The curriculum is aimed at rural communities and includes outlines of different lessons, activities, and all of the materials a teacher would need to implement bicycle and pedstrian safety education.

This paper reports findings from The Near Miss Project, the first-ever UK study of cycling near misses—incidents that don’t result in an injury but were nevertheless scary, annoying, and/or stressful—of 1,500 cyclists. 

This infobrief describes state outreach, technical assistance, and partnership approaches that support rural communities and highlights two communities that have successfully used federal funds to improve safety and accessibility for walking and bicycling. 

 In this study, increases in perceived safety were associated with increased recreational walking, but not walking for transportation.

Key takeaway:

• As driver speed increases, the rate of yielding to pedestrians decreases.
• The researcher suggests that speed enforcement and design to reduced speeds through skinny lanes or traffic calming devices could improve unsafe crossings.

Data on crashes involving school-transportation vehicles provides important insights for safety in school travel across motorized and nonmotorized modes.

Parental concerns are important predictors of child participation in active transportation to school, highlighting the importance of engaging parents in interventions like Safe Routes to School to promote walking and biking to school.

This study describes relationships between travel for different transportation modes and aspects of the built environment. These relationships can be used to forecast changes in driving, walking, or transit use and estimate impacts of policy changes that influence the built environment.

Measuring the built environment can help assess needs and set priorities for creating healthy community design. 

Qualitative interviews with an adult population indicate that concepts of neighborhoods and walkability apply to rural areas, but some characteristics of these concepts may be different from urban and suburban areas.

KEY TAKEAWAY:

• In this study, urban location and decreased distance to school were related to adopting or maintaining active transportation to school.

“Schools not located near residences make it impossible for most children to walk or bike to school, thereby missing an opportunity for physical activity as part of daily routines.”

An instructional video by Jason Serafino-Agar on how to teach your child to ride a bike in 3 steps

Learn how you can use the report cards to communicate the importance of supportive state policies and highlight ideas for inspiring change in your state.

This fact sheet provides a quick summary of the report cards' scoring structure.

This fact sheet explores the benefits of making healthy food accessible by foot, bike, or transit, and highlights examples of how businesses, agencies, and nonprofits are taking action to improve transportation options to healthy food.

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating walking route maps using free tools.