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Shifting Modes: A Comparative Analysis of SRTS Program Elements and Travel Mode Outcomes
This study explores how school-level dynamics that underlie the planning and implementation of SRTS programs relate to the percentage of students who walk and bicycle between home and school. Do successful Safe Routes to School programs have something in common? Shifting Modes: A Comparative Analysis of Safe Routes to School Program Elements and Travel Mode Outcomes identifies the following four key factors that successful SRTS programs share:
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Pump Down the Volume: SRTS and Traffic Reduction
Communities initiate Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs for a variety of reasons. In an attempt to reduce the barriers for students to walk and bicycle to school, some programs focus on reducing traffic congestion and the number of cars around schools. In this sixty minute webinar, we will take a brief look at the problem of traffic congestion as it relates to SRTS and then focus on two SRTS programs that have had success in reducing congestion and measuring traffic reductions. Presenters:
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Engaging Youth in Your SRTS Program
December 13th, 2011 - 1:00 pm EDT Register Now
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When and where is the next SRTS National Conference?
The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) National Conference is held every other year and is co-sponsored by the National Center for Safe Routes to School (the National Center) and the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. The next National Conference will take place August 13 - 15, 2013 in Sacramento, California. Visit www.saferoutesconference.org for up-to-date information on the conference. 
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Keys to a Successful SRTS Program: Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers
Volunteers are an essential part of a successful Safe Routes to School Program. In this sixty minute webinar, Wendi Kallins, Director of the Marin County SRTS Program, will provide tips and tricks on where to find volunteers, how to recruit them and importantly, how to retain and keep them motivated once they are on board. Lourdes Perez, Director of the Ceres Partnership for Healthy Children, will then provide insight and tips for successfully recruiting non-English speaking parents. When: Tuesday November 29, 2011 1-2 p.m. EDT Presenters:
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Getting Results: SRTS Programs That Reduce Traffic
Communities initiate Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs for a variety of reasons. In an attempt to reduce the barriers for students to walk and bicycle to school, some programs focus on reducing traffic congestion and the number of cars around schools.
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Is the Walking School Bus Guide available anywhere on the website as one PDF that can be printed?
You may access a pdf version ofthe National Center for Safe Routes to School's entire Walking School Bus Guide here.
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Location, Location, Location: New Guidance for Locating Schools in a Healthy, Sustainable Way
Where communities choose to locate their schools plays a big role in the health of the students, local residents, and even the surrounding neighborhood. Fortunately, new guidance and tools are available for those striving to make decisions that are good for the pocketbook, as well as the health of their citizens and community.
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How Children Get to School: School Travel Patterns from 1969 to 2009
This report describes how student school travel in the U.S. changed from 1969 through 2009 using information from the 2001 and 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) and the 1969 and 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Surveys (NPTS). The report presents the two measures of school travel captured by the NHTS and NPTS: usual school travel mode as reported by parents (1969, 2009), and the school travel mode as reported by students on the day they completed a travel diary (1995, 2001 and 2009).
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What are some examples of Walk to School Day incentives?
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