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A literature review on the effect of electronic device use on pedestrian safety.

This newly released reference for non-engineers, is intended for highway safety professionals, including State Highway Safety Officials, as well as their partners and grantees, as a reference for an integrated and comprehensive effort to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety and support broader transportation-related goals. 

We’ve developed state report cards which provide a snapshot of how supportive each state is of walking, bicycling, and physical activity for children and adults as of 2016.

Physical activity is a fundamental building block for good health, and states have a crucial role in promoting it. States’ actions are essential – enacting laws and policies to support active, healthy lifestyles, devoting staff and planning efforts to physical activity, and ensuring adequate funding for walking, bicycling, and physical activity.

Looking for more information or support for Safe Routes to School in Washington state? Join the Safe Routes to School Action Network.

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This online resource is created to explore shared use agreements in the school setting. The resource currently focuses on work in Mississippi, Minnesota and Massachusetts.

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In this study, we attempt to estimate the impact of SUA adoption on school district expenditures. 

An estimated 2,368 pedestrians were killed in the first half of 2015, an increase of 10% over the same time period the prior year. The preliminary 2015 data were provided by GHSA's member State Highway Safety Office members. 

DC has the 9th highest childhood obesity rate in the United States. Shared Use is an avenue to address childhood obesity by increasing opportunities for physical activity in every community. 

This brief examines how likely children and teenagers younger than age 18 live in communities that have adopted shared use agreements in the form of resolutions, ordinances, or formal agreements, and the partnerships involved with those agreements. 

This webinar discusses the opportunities and challenges to advancing Safe Routes to School in tribal communities.

Tribal communities have much to gain from increasing active transportation.  But they can experience particular challenges to making policy and on-the-ground changes necessary to support active transportation and Safe Routes to School. 

EPA developed the Smart School Siting Tool to help school agencies and other local government agencies work together to better align school siting and other community development decisions.

This factsheet helps communities understand how to use the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) to support healthy community design and active transportation.

This brief provides an overview of the unique considerations in implementing Safe Routes to School in tribal communities.

"Walking as a Practice" examines four ways in which individuals and organizations are engaging in walking.