Safe Routes To School - Resources and Contacts

Online Resources:

- National Safe Routes to School Partnership
- National Center for Safe Routes to School

1. Reports, guidelines, tools and contacts

The concept and history of SRTS

- Summary of Safe Routes to School Programs: 2000
Transportation Alternatives and the Surface Transportation Policy Project. A review and analysis of SRTS projects in the U.S. in 2000.
- Mean Streets 2004 and Driven to Spend. The Surface Transportation Policy Project.

2. Activities: Projects and Programs

Program overview and guidelines

- Safe Routes to School Toolkit. NHTSA - A comprehensive introduction to most aspects of SRTS programs and activities; written by Wendi Kallins of the Marin County SRTS program.
- The KidsWalk PowerPoint Show. CDC - This presentation was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to encourage state level promotion of walk and bicycle to school programs by building state level partnerships and assisting local constituents to develop walk and bicycle to school programs.

Encouragement

- Walk to School Day: Steps To Organize an Event. Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center. - All about this national and international event, including guidelines on how to do the event at your school.
- The ABCs of Walk to School Day. - A starter kit from the California Walk to School project.
- The Walking School Bus: Bringing Schools and Communities Together to Create Safer Walking Environments For Kids

Education

- The NHTSA Safe Routes to School Toolkit. - Includes an extensive guide to classroom activities related to SRTS.
- Florida's Safe Ways to School. - A traffic safety and bicycle safety education program

Training and Community Workshops

- National Center for Bicycling & Walking