SRTS reports and more

Safe Routes to School: Reports, Evaluations, and Toolkits
Toolkit
Step by Step: How to Start a Walking School Bus at Your School

This toolkit is designed to help parents, educators, and community members plan and organize a walking school bus using adult volunteers as leaders. 

Toolkit, Website
Arkansas Safe Routes to School Curriculum

This curriculum was developed to be used in physcial education classes for all grades in Arkansas. The curriculum is aimed at rural communities and includes outlines of different lessons, activities, and all of the materials a teacher would need to implement bicycle and pedstrian safety education.

Report
Safe Routes to School by the Numbers

This report offers insights into how newly expanding access to data can assist in improving walking and biking programs, provides an overview of the current state of data access and its limitations, and highlights case studies of communities and organizations using data to make walking and bicycling programs and policies function more effectively.

Fact Sheet, Report
Los Programas de Rutas Escolares Seguras/ Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Sí Funcionan

This infographic in Spanish features evidence on the barriers of walking and biking to school and the positive impacts of SRTS programs on physical activity levels and safety. Findings presented in this infographic come from a related ALR research review.

Toolkit, Website
Be a Roll Model

"Be A Roll Model" is a campaign to encourage everyone to model safe behaviors to enhance the safety of all road users, including those who bicycle.

Toolkit, Evaluation
Walk-Friendly Community Assessment for Teens

Walkability checklist developed for use by teens. 

Toolkit, Evaluation
Walk-Friendly Community Assessment for Teens

Walkability checklist developed for use by teens. 

Toolkit, Website
Right-of-Way at Intersections Activities

Who has the right-of-way? All vehicles must follow right-of-way rules to safely cross intersections. Right-of-way is an activity for children that helps them understand who goes first at an intersection.

Toolkit
Walk to school? But how do I find the front door?

School campuses should welcome children whether they arrive on foot, by bike, bus, or car. Too often, a student walking to school is confronted with traffic congestion, unsafe crossings and a circuitous route to the front door. This guide summarizes best practices for planning and designing K-12 school campuses that encourage walking.

Report
Making Strides:

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.