Safe Routes To School - Resources and Contacts

Introduction | History | Activities | Planning | Safe School Zones | Walking School Buses | Funding | Resources | City-SRTS Pilot Program | Journals | Workshops | Community Assessment Tool

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

3. Case Studies: Examples of programs

In the U.S.

- California Safe Routes to School initiative

- Bronx Safe Routes to School program

- WalkBoston Safe Routes to Schools project

In Canada

- Active & Safe Routes to School

- Way to Go! - British Columbia's SRTS program with many resources

Other international programs

- Sustrans: The UK's Safe Routes to School Program

4. Funding: Where to find the money

- California SRTS funding process

- Texas SRTS funding process

- Federal funding guide to sources for programs

5. Data Gathering

- Walkability and Bikeability Checklists - Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center

- Surveys for students and parents

6. Other contacts

- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Kids Walk to School: The resource section for CDC's community-based SRTS programs.

- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

- Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center

- America Bikes

- National Safe Kids Campaign