01485117

Component

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a national program and a movement to enable and encourage children to walk and bike to school. State coordinators implement the federally-funded program to promote safe, active transportation. Funding is used to support planning, program implementation, and project construction in small towns, suburban areas, and cities. Successful local programs require a crosscutting approach bringing together school districts, local governments, law enforcement, parents, students, and others to create an effective plan. The state Safe Routes to School programs in Illinois, Ohio and Virginia have adopted a School Travel Plan reference guide to facilitate planning by localities to make communities safe for kindergarten to eighth grade students to walk and bike to school. The School Travel Plan has proved to be an important and low cost tool to engage communities in creating sustainable transportation systems. The action plan, for strategies to make walking and cycling safe, draws together “the five E’s” of Safe Routes to School: education, encouragement, enforcement, evaluation and engineering. These plans can work for a single school or for schools city-wide. This paper and conference presentation will describe: (1) motivations for why communities become interested in the Safe Routes to School movement; (2) types of Safe Routes to School guidebooks and planning documents used across the country; (3) key components of a School Travel Plan in Ohio, Illinois and Virginia; (4) how the Virginia Safe Routes to School Program began to use the School Travel Plan process; (5) the Illinois and Ohio Safe Routes to School program, including types of planning assistance to communities; (6) the number and type of communities creating School Travel Plans; (7) examples of success stories involving implementation of aspects of School Travel Plans; (8) a simple survey of planning tools used in other SRTS programs around the country; and (9) the benefits of this type of planning to engage people in creating livable communities.

01483192

English

9p

2010

12th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

Digital/other

CD-ROM; Figures; Photos; References

City planning; Implementation; Safety; School children; Sustainable transportation; Transportation planning

Safe Routes to School (Program)

Illinois; Ohio; Virginia

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jun 25 2013 1:20PM

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• A New Traffic Assignment Method for Small and Medium Communities
• A Standardized Tool for Calculating Road User Benefits
• A Transportation Safety Planning Tool for the City of Ames
• An Economical Methodology for Development of Land Use and Socio-economic Forecasts for Long-range Transportation Plans (LRTPS)
• An Investigation of the Transferability of Trip Generation Models
• Application of a Combined Travel Demand and Microsimulation Model for a Small City
• Application of Dynamic Traffic Assignment in a Small-Urban Area
• Applying a Multi-Resolution Modeling Approach for Master Planning of State Route 285 Corridor at Wenatchee Valley, WA
• Applying the Housing + Transportation Affordability Index in Your Metro Area
• Circulator Guidebook: Dupage Local Area Circulator Study
• Comparison of Five Metropolitan Washington Travel Demand Models
• Data Alternatives in Support of Regional Travel Demand Modeling
• Developing Travel Demand Modeling Tools for Medium-Sized Communities in Virginia
• Dynamic Model Visualization and Investigation
• Estimating Arterial Performance in Small and Medium-Sized Communities
• GLOBEWARM – A Tool to Estimate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Roadway Vehicles
• Integrating Planning and Operations for a Comprehensive Transportation Management System
• Lessons Learned: A Community Driven Approach to Infrastructure Improvement
• Moving the Guests at a 400th Anniversary: Jamestown 2007
• MPO Planning Resources – An Internet-Based Tool
• Northern Minnesota/Northern Wisconsin Freight Plan
• Prioritizing Projects for the Metropolitan Transportation Plan -- The Lexington Experience
• Public Involvement in Bicycle Safety
• Safe Routes to School: A Collaborative Approach
• Small-Town Transportation Assessments that Work: Combining Community Learning and Research Strategies
• Transit Node Analysis: Comparing Street-Level Physical and Socioeconomic Factors Using a Layered GIS Approach
• Transportation of Wind Energy Industry Components: Planning for Growth in the Heartland
• Using a Federal Database and Local Industry Sector Knowledge to Develop Future Freight Forecasts
• Using Decision Trees in Transportation Planning and Analysis
• Vacant Land Inventory and Development Assessment Tool