More Youth Safety and Mobility Examples


Detroit Creates Connections at a Crossing

Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Describes how a quick-build project in Detroit, Michigan, improved safety for students walking to school by reducing the turning radius at a key crossing and adding community murals.
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Creating Connections: Opportunities for Safe Routes to School Programs to Support High School Students with Disabilities

Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Explores how Safe Routes to School programs can support high school students with disabilities, featuring examples from Minnesota and Oregon.
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State DOTs Transportation Alternatives Program Safe Routes to School Funding

Source: Safe Routes Partnership
Monitors the progress of State DOTs in administering the federal Safe Routes to School program and the Transportation Alternatives Program, tracking how funds are awarded and obligated.
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Indicators to Evaluate States' Support of Walking, Rolling and Active Kids

Source: Safe Routes Partnership
Previews the 26 indicators used to evaluate each state in the 2024 edition of the Making Strides state report cards.
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Atlanta Uses Quick-Build Projects to Engage Community and Improve Road Safety for Young Pedestrians and Bicyclists

Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) and Vision Zero for Youth
Details a quick-build walk/bike lane near a middle school in the City of Atlanta and offers insights that can inform other communities interested in using quick-build approaches to support community engagement and advance road safety.
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Seattle models strategies for equitably advancing safe walking and biking for youth

Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) and Vision Zero for Youth
Offers a look at Seattle's strategies for equitably advancing safe walking and biking for youth.
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Safe Routes to School State Contacts

Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center maintains a list of State Safe Routes to School contacts.
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Government Funding

Source: Pedestrian Bicycle Information Center
At any level of government, the rules and criteria used to establish agency priorities should ensure that good bicycle and pedestrian projects compete well for funding.
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How to Increase Bicycling for Daily Travel

Source: Active Living Research
This brief summarizes available evidence about strategies for increasing bicycling levels, including on-street bike lanes, off-street bike paths, and other bicycling infrastructure and educational programs,
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School Zone Roundabout

Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
The Green Bay, Wisconsin county planning commission's experiment with a roundabout in a school zone.
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