This study identifies correlations between walking behaviors to school and relevant policy implications.

This article reviews the Partnership for Active Communities efforts to bring together multidisciplinary organizations to create a 5-year project to support increased walking and bicycling in the Sacramento, CA area.

This study examines 496 parental questionnaires to evaluate the transport practices of school children and perceived factors that influenced parental decisions regarding their child’s use of active transport to commute to school.

This article highlights Safe Routes to School as a promising strategy for increasing youth physical activity and improving health equity.

This study tests and refines a conceptual model between the individual and the environment in rural communities.

This study addressed the importance of the development of high-quality measures to understand the impact of the built environment on physical activity.

This report scientifically reviews the literature on child pedestrian education and discusses possible child pedestrian safety programs that could be more effective in keeping child pedestrians safe.

Evidence shows significant relationships between aspects of the built environment and physical activity. Land use and transportation investments are needed to create environments that support and promote physical activity.

This study examines bicycle- and pedestrian-related investments authorized by federal transportation legislation in 3,140 counties in the United States by region, population size and urbanization, social and economic characteristics, and indicators of travel-related walking and bicycling.

Active Living by Design’s Get Active Orlando partnership focused on incorporating activity living considerations into Orlando’s downtown, home to many low-income and ethnically diverse resident and seniors.

This study evaluates the impact of a walking school bus on student transport in a low-income, urban neighborhood.

Active commuting to school provides regular exercise, which can improve asthma symptoms. Little is known about how children with asthma travel to school.

This study analyzes data from a sample of 4,156 metropolitan Atlanta residents who were interviewed by telephone and kept two-day travel diaries.

In this study of children aged 8-10, for every additional park located within a half-mile of their home, girls are twice as likely to walk to school.

This brief summary of evidence of benefits from being physically active reveals that national surveillance data indicate a substantial portion of youth and adults in the United States do not meet recommendations.

Physical Activity Across the Curriculum (PAAC) was a three-year cluster randomized controlled trial to promote physical activity and diminish increases in overweight and obesity in elementary school children.

This research brief presents an overview of findings demonstrating the potential impact of infrastructure investments and other transportation programs on walking and bicycling for transportation, and on related health outcomes.

Active living has four domains: transportation, recreation, occupation, and household.

This brief summarizes research on active transport to school, physical activity levels and health outcomes.

This article highlights Safe Routes to School as a promising strategy for increasing youth physical activity and improving health equity.