Comment:
Includes Case Study in different communities on safe routes to school maps to inform students and families about walking and bicycling route to school and can also identify areas that require improvements. Discusses Neighborhood walkabouts and bike-abouts as environment analysis exercises used in many Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs to raise awareness of the issues and conditions facing walking and bicycling, to garner support for needed changes and to gather information needed to help create school route maps. Discussion of walking and bicycling Audits to gather data about environmental conditions, and a traffic control plan (map of a school campus and the adjacent street system marked with proposed engineering improvements to increase the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians).

Last Updated (Year): 2015

Year Produced: 2011

Abstract:

This guide is a comprehensive online reference manual designed to support the development of Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs. It provides links to other SRTS publications and training resources. Readers of the online guide can pick and choose specific topics based on their interests and needs, such as guidelines for adult school crossing guards, tools to create school route maps, and ways to include children with disabilities in SRTS initiatives.
One of the basic tenets of pedestrian and bicycle safety is that to be effective, safety programs must be comprehensive – involving engineering, education, enforcement and evaluation. The online guide supports that premise by providing “one-stop shopping” on all aspects of SRTS. Plus it adds additional elements that apply to school programs, such as motivating students to walk and bicycle to school – or “encouragement”.
This online guide contains several chapters. Each chapter is subdivided into sections. The sections within each chapter are easily identified with sub-links. Simply click on each sub-link within a chapter and you will enter a particular section.

For:Walking, Biking

The E's:Engineering, Education

Ped Bike Activity:

• Planning
• Maintenance
• Design

Ped Bike Topic:

• Traffic Calming
• Traffic Assessment
• Schools
• Safety Promotion
• Safe Routes to School
• Retrofit
• Planning Processes
• Planning
• Networks
• Information Distribution
• Design
• Case Study
• Built environment
• Bicycle Planning

Resource Type:

• Guidance

Link to Content Source:

Safe Routes to School Online Guide