More Youth Safety and Mobility Examples
Connecting Families, School, and Community through a Walking School Bus in Philadelphia
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Describes the formation and operation of a walking school bus in Philadelphia, PA.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Describes how quick-build projects in Winterville, NC, sought to improve pedestrian safety, particularly for schoolchildren.
Read More >Pueblo of Jemez Creates Community-Informed Traffic Calming Solutions
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Documents safety improvements near a school in the Pueblo of Jemez, NM, that used innovative solutions to address walking and biking challenges on earthen roads.
Read More >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.
Read More >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.
Read More >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.
Read More >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.
Read More >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.
Read More >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.
Read More >Vision Zero for Youth Demonstration Project: Year One Report
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Summarizes work, findings, and deliverables from the first year of the Vision Zero for Youth Demonstration Project work plan (October 2019-September 2020).
Read More >Considerations for Deploying Automated Driving Systems Around Schools
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Summarizes the challenges of automated driving systems (ADS) around K-12 schools and provides ten recommendations for ADS developers and local stakeholders to consider prior to broad deployment of automated vehicles around schools.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Four examples of low cost and higher investment strategies for collecting school travel data and how different agencies are using those data.
Read More >Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Offers educational materials to reinforce safety messages and behaviors.
Read More >Demonstration of Promising Practices to Increase Proper Bicycle Helmet Use in Middle School Youth
Source: Center for Education and Research in Safety and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Shares behavioral strategies to increase the helmet use of middle school children.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Mulberry Street, in Milton, Delaware, was transformed from an automobile dominated through fare to a street that is safe for pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Two communities built a multi-use trail to connect to each other and commercial, recreational, and educational facilities along the way.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
A busy automobile oriented street in Colorado that connects Boulder to Rocky Mountain National Park and Denver gets a makeover to become a "Complete Street."
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
A significant number of Spanish-speaking individuals with limited English comprehension live in Amarillo, Texas. To serve this population, the Texas Bicycle Coalition (TBC) needed to provide bicycle safety instruction in Spanish.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
The Ozaukee Interurban Trail is a 30-mile shared-use trail that connects six communities in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Many communities in the U.S. have been designed to accommodate automobiles, not cyclists and pedestrians. Traffic calming can help make bicycling and walking more comfortable and neighborhoods more livable.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
People face many real and perceived barriers to bicycling, including fear of theft, concern for safety, and lack of knowledge. A bike-transit center's services remove many barriers to bicycling.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Commitments to complete the streets have been adopted via state law, local ordinances and resolutions, agency policies, comprehensive plans, tax measures, and design manual re-writes.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Porous concrete used to construct a needed walkway in Snohomish County inside existing road right-of-way without requiring storm water detention facilities.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Bilingual presentations at schools in low-income communities teach children proper pedestrian safety through video clips of their local neighborhoods.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Pedestrian safety integrated into Orange County, Florida, school curriculum and projects through the work of a safety team comprised of police officers, firemen, engineers, school officials, and advocacy group members.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Community group in Portland partners with a local business, the city, and DOT to improve the pedestrian environment through specially designed umbrellas and multiple engineering measures.
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