SRTS reports and more

Safe Routes to School: Reports, Evaluations, and Toolkits
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.

Toolkit
How to Demonstrate Bicycle Helmet Effectiveness

A step-by-step guide with accompanying pictures to visually demonstrate how bicycle helmets work to protect the head and brain from serious injury in the event of a crash. 

Toolkit
Where Do I Begin?

This manual is for parents, caregivers, volunteers, teachers, and other school champions and provides step-by-step instructions on 1) how to encourage bicycling and walking to school, and 2) how to start a safety campaign at your school. Remember that these tips and ideas can and should be tailored to fit the needs and issues relevant at your school.

Toolkit
Safe Routes to School and Student Leaders:

This guide offers practical tools for adult facilitators to support middle school students in the promotion of safe walking, bicycling, and public transit use to and from school. Student-led campaigns can generate enthusiasm and improve the social conditions for a Safe Routes to School program!

Fact Sheet, Report
Safe Routes to School Programs Work

This infographic 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.

Report
Oregon Safe Routes: A Statewide Snapshot

The Oregon Safe Routes to School Network has released the first-ever Annual Snapshot Report focused on Safe Routes to School activities in Oregon.

Report
Taking Back the Streets and Sidewalks

This report provides a primer for Safe Routes to School professionals looking to address community safety threats that may discourage or endanger students walking or bicycling to school. 

Toolkit, Report
Cycling Skills Clinic Guide

This guide is written for those interested in planning a bicycle safety skills event for children either at school or at other community venues. It gives you a step-by-step approach to planning and initiating a bicycle safety skills event, including instructions and resources for setting up a course.

Toolkit, Report
Cycling Skills Clinic Guide

This guide is written for those interested in planning a bicycle safety skills event for children either at school or at other community venues. It gives you a step-by-step approach to planning and initiating a bicycle safety skills event, including instructions and resources for setting up a course.

Toolkit, Case Study
Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operations

The primary objective of this guide is to provide tips and guidance on how States and communities can effectively deploy pedestrian safety enforcement operations to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities.