New data released from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area’s Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), shows that rates of bicycling and walking have increased throughout the region.
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Fact Sheet
Frequently Asked Questions
This resource answers frequently asked questions about establishing joint use for school facilities.
Report, Case Study
Leads to Greater Collaboration with Public Health and School Officials
This report demonstrates how Safe Routes to School is a collaborative effort involving multiple organizations, including state Departments of Education and state Departments of Public Health.
Along with the transition from cold to a warm climate, more and more cyclists will be getting out to enjoy the beautiful sights the state has to offer.
Fact Sheet
This policy brief provides information about these programs and ways that school districts/county offices of education (COEs) can become involved in increasing active transportation to and from school.
As Safe Routes to School programs have increased across the country, a clear need for better data management at the national level has become apparent. Many communities have used Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping in assessments of the built environment, but because there is not a central place to store data, this information is stuck, in a sense, at the local level.
Toolkit
This report describes a process that can be used in any state to bring together diverse partners, create a SRTS State Network, and initiate policy changes that will make it safer and easier for children to be able to walk and bicycle to schools.
In June 2013, the American College of Sports Medicine released their most recent fitness ranking of the 50 largest US metropolitan areas.
Webinar
Engaging School Administrators in the Shared Use of School Facilities to Increase Physical Activity Opportunities for Kids
This webinar from November 6, 2013 provides examples and key resources to assist in starting conversations about shared use and building relationships with school board members, school administrators and principals.
Nearly three years in the making, Plan Bay Area was approved by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), in an after-midnight vote early in the morning of July 19. Plan Bay Area will have massive significant impacts on active transportation, pub
Model Policy
This resource is a policy statement that describes the goals of the Georgia Safe Routes to School Regional Network.
"We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity."
Journal Article, Fact Sheet, Research
The federal Safe Routes to School program provides funds to support programs in each state to ensure that it is safe and easy for children to walk and bicycle to school.
After Congress and the President were unable to agree on a deal to continue funding for federal agencies and programs through the annual appropriations process, the federal government was shut down and non-essential employees were sent home. The shutdown is now in its second week, and there is no sign of progress towards a resolution.
Webinar
This webinar from September 5, 2013 focuses on working with middle school youth and looks at programs that have effectively engaged youth in active transportation.
This October I was asked to write a guest post for the Green Trips program blog on how families and children can learn about their impact on the environment, their health, and their budgets by choosing to bike or walk for transportation instead of using a car.
Report, Case Study
This report explores environmental health and Safe Routes toSchool through a review of the relationship between environmental health and school travel, a discussion on measuring the environmental health impacts of school travel, and five examples of methods used by SRTS programs to estimate the impact of their activities on local air quality.
While it seems that the MAP-21 transportation law passed fairly recently, Congress only passed a two-year bill and MAP-21 expires in September 2014. Congress is starting to hold hearings on the transportation law and to consider how to fund the next bill.
Fact Sheet
These briefings sheets were developed with funding support from the National Center for Safe Routes to School. The briefing sheets are intended for use by transportation engineers and planners to support their active participation in the development and implementation of Safe Routes to School programs and activities.