This study uses an accelerometer and questions describing travel habits to evaluate physical activity levels among primary school children.
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.
This study reports that students who walk both to and from school accrue the most minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA).
This article focuses on the relationship between the built environment, travel behavior, and public health outcomes.
This article reviews research on the association between physical activity among school-aged children and academic outcomes.
This article focuses on the relationship between the built environment, travel behavior, and public health outcomes.
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.
This study examines the association between traffic-related pollution and childhood asthma among 208 children in 10 communities in Southern California.
School proximity to students matters. Students with shorter walk and bike times to school are more likely to walk or bike.
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.
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.
Because of travel behavior differences, school location has an impact on air emissions.
This page with shared use agreements allows the user to explore this community health strategy to assist partners make change at the local level.
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.
Key Takeaway: Short bouts of physical activity like walking may be associated with improved concentration among some children.
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.
Fired Up! That’s the best way I can describe the energy on the first day of the 3rd Safe Routes to School National Conference, which is being held at the Minneapolis Convention Center. About 600 people from nearly every state in the US came here seeking to learn, share and build connections so that they can go home with new tools to improve their communities, making them safer for kids to walk and bike – improving health, communities and the environment.
With Congress in recess this week, we have a short breather. So I’m taking this opportunity to bring you up to speed on where things stand on the transportation bill. The past three weeks have been action-packed—and there’s more to come next week and beyond.
Hi, my name is Kathy Cooke, and I'm network coordinator for the Safe Routes Partnership! Even though I battle daily to get my two sons to put on a jacket or long pants during Portland's rainier months, I've found ways to make sure other "systems" are in place that help them get safely to and from school. We have tools at the ready to fix their bike brakes or pump air in their tires.
Please note that the Request to Host for the 2013 Safe Routes to School National Conference was not released on April 16 as stated below. Stay tuned as we will send it out as soon as possible!