Fear is a big barrier to bicycling for Blacks and Hispanics (i.e., fear of traffic collisions, fear of robbery and assault, fear of being stranded with a broken bicycle, fear of police racial profiling, and fear of verbal harassment). 

Use this checklist to assess the walkability of your route or neighborhood.

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

Here is a guide to use walking meetings in your workplace to stimulate creativity, boost workplace morale, and provide easy opportunities for physical activity during the workday.

The ChangeLab Solutions' pedcast, Road Signs, is designed for public health practitioners and advocates interested in creating safe and active streets. Each episode introduces one transportation tool that promotes community health and well-being. 

This fact sheet includes tips for employers and employees who want to incorporate walking into the workday.

This study provides helpful strategies and evaluation measures for enhancing Safe Routes to School programming and participation. 

The Bike Score measure was found to be significantly correlated with cycling mode share, in that a higher composite Bike Score, made up of a weighted sum of bike lane availability, topography, and connectivity, was associated with higher rates of commute cycling.

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This study examined the degree of usage and production of PA among schools with shared use, and how variation in PA output is related to characteristics of the school, type of activity, facility type, and when activity occurs. g schools.

Study results indicate a possible positive relationship between lower levels of stress when cycling and greater average numbers of cyclists riding to both elementary and junior high schools. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• The built environment has a significant impact on a child’s choice to walk or bike to school. Specifically, children tend to avoid busy streets on their active commute to school, which is an important consideration for the planning and design of the neighborhoods surrounding schools. 

In this study, the Safe Routes to School program was associated with an approximately 23 percent percent reduction in pedestrian/bicyclist injury risk and a 20 percent reduction in pedestrian/bicyclist fatality risk in school-age children (5-19 years) compared to adults (30-64 years). 

This study suggests that a distance of approximately 2 km between home and school provides the best potential physical activity outcomes related to active transport for children and adolescents. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS: This study found that neighborhood social environments have a positive influence on children’s active commuting to and from school for boys, and an inverse significant association for girls. 

Both the quality and process of placemaking, defined loosely within this publication as a project that occurs in public spaces helping people to feel connected to a place and greater community, has demonstrated physical, mental, and social health benefits.

When planning for development around a school, a low-speed-road environment more than two miles away from highways, with less auto-centric commercial use, and safer pedestrian infrastructure around transit stops is preferred to minimize pedestrian crashes.

Youth support for policy change, program development and community planning can be the catalyst to success: When kids speak up, adults listen. 

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Key takeaway:

• This study documents the implementation of Active & Safe Routes to School (ASRTS) in an indigenous community in Canada.