A March 2012 research brief by Active Living Research, Impact of the Walking School Bus Program on Children’s Pedestrian Safety Behaviors, reported that parents listed their children’s safety as one of the top concerns regarding walking to school, and that improving safety may lead more parents to allow their children to walk to school. 

With support provided by the Barr Foundation, WalkBoston and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) developed a spatial framework for the following: 

This is an updated version of the State of the States report.

This study assessed the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program in five states: Florida, Mississippi,Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.

The U.S. GAO report on Safe Routes to School was released on July 31, 2008.

The purpose of these guidelines is to summarize the most successful ways of implementing ARS 28- 797 in order to effectively achieve school safety throughout Arizona.

This study measures the impact of a walking school bus program on active transportation in an urban, low-income elementary school.

WalkBoston and (MAPC) developed a tool for schools in Massachusetts to assess walking and biking potential. The tool reveals whether  children living nearby are currently arriving in cars  or whether most nearby students are already arriving on foot. A discussion of the tool can be found http://walkboston.org/what-we-do/initiatives/research.

This report describes how student school travel in the U.S. changed from 1969through 2009 using information from the 2001 and 2009 National HouseholdTravel Survey (NHTS) and the 1969 and 1995 Nationwide Personal TransportationSurveys (NPTS).

This report provides an update on major State Network Project accomplishments in 2008, lessons learned, state summaries, and the Local School Project.