More Youth Safety and Mobility Resources
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides age-specific video lessons to teach bicycle and pedestrian safety skills either in the classroom or in a one-on-one setting.
Read More >Source: National Center for Safe Routes to School
Provides resources on planning events for Walk to School Day and Bike to School Day along with ideas for year-round walking programs.
Read More >Walking, Riding, and Rolling for a New Generation: How to Partner with Youth on Safe Routes Projects
Source: Safe Routes to School National Partnership
Spotlights youth-led traffic safety projects and offers strategies for championing projects like Safe Routes to School and advocacy campaigns.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Provides strategies for prioritizing youth pedestrian and bicyclist safety with the broader goal of improving safety for all road users.
Read More >Scale and Sustainability: Highlights of the Streets for Kids 2023 Projects
Source: Global Designing Cities Initiative
Showcases Streets for Kids projects and their impact on street design.
Read More >Source: Urban Minds
Offers a toolkit of best practices for youth engagement in urban planning.
Read More >"Walking to School: Connecting Past and Present Impacts" StoryMap Text Content
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Provides a text file of "Walking to School: Connecting Past and Present Impacts" StoryMap for ADA/WCAG accessibility.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Explores the enduring effects of segregation and present-day social factors on current street conditions around schools and disinvested communities via a StoryMap focusing on these impacts in Atlanta, Georgia and featuring an initiative to improve active travel for middle school students.
Read More >Creating Accessible, Equitable, Safe, and Complete Networks for Young Pedestrians
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Offers considerations for the needs and cognitive and physical abilities of children and youth as pedestrians and bicyclists, and three actionable ideas to improve planning and safety for child and youth active travel.
Read More >Cincinnati Uses Quick-Build Project to Address an Urgent Safety Need
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) and National Center for Safe Routes to School
Provides a look at a quick-build project in Cincinnati to address an urgent safety need and offers insights that can inform cities interested in implementing quick-build projects.
Read More >Source: International Transport Forum (ITF)
Examines the potential impact of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) on how passenger transport is currently organized, and assesses the regulatory and governance requirements for integrating MaaS with public transport and ensuring it delivers more sustainable urban mobility.
Read More >Source: UNC Injury Prevention Research Center & NC Division of Public Health
Offers strategies for surveillance and prevention of fatalities and injuries in youth school and organized sports that could apply to bicycling, running, and other nonmotorized events. Informed by practices specific to the state of North Carolina that could be translated to other local or regional efforts.
Read More >Source: Safe Routes to School National Partnership
Offers detailed tips, strategies, and steps for engaging communities and working together to make meaningful change.
Read More >Adolescents’ Perceptions of Walking and Bicycling to School and Home-to-School Distance
Source: Journal of Transport & Health
Finds that adolescents’ perceptions of walking and bicycling differ based on home-to-school distance.
Read More >Source: Urban Minds
Offers a preview of the first three chapters of the Cities for Youth Toolkit that lays out guiding principles, best practices, and case studies on how to engage youth in city planning.
Read More >Source: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Provides activities for K-12 students to learn more about safe road users, safe vehicles, safe speeds, and safe roads. Includes activity sheets and instructions.
Read More >Source: Care.com
Summarizes the considerations for determining when children can walk to and from school alone.
Read More >Source: Next City
Explains the bike bus model as a healthy, social way for kids to travel to school.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Board Transit Cooperative Research Program
Provides a broad overview of micromobility research and findings.
Read More >Source: National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research
Offers a collection of resources and research to help make the business case for improving the built environment.
Read More >Vision Zero for Youth Demonstration Project, Philadelphia, PA, 2019-2021
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center and Toole Design
Summarizes a combination of “Vision Zero for Youth” approaches with a focus on systemic pedestrian safety analysis that reinforces the City’s commitment to youth road safety to gain an understanding of replicable strategies and tools for other cities to use.
Read More >Source: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Presents a roadmap for states to develop comprehensive crash-related data linkage systems with special attention to measuring serious injuries in crashes.
Read More >Source: UNICEF & Child Health Initiative
Describes 10 key actions for school reopening plans to help manage the risks posed by COVID-19 and help ensure the safest, healthiest journeys to school possible for children of different ages and abilities living in different contexts.
Read More >Source: Safe Routes Partnership
Outlines success stories, best practices, and resources to plan, fund, and build safer, more convenient streets for biking and walking through Complete Streets policies.
Read More >Generating and Prioritizing Funding for Active Transportation
Source: Safe Routes Partnership
Provides success stories, best practices, and resources to secure sustainable regional funding for active transportation and transit.
Read More >Source: NHTSA
Reports on anecdotal evidence that points to the positive indirect effects of seat belts on school bus safety, which includes improved on-bus behavior and reduced school bus driver distraction.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Board
State departments of transportation (DOTs) conduct planning and administer funding programs for the implementation of pedestrian and bicycle projects.
Read More >Pedestrian Injuries and Deaths Among School Bus Riders Media Scan Data
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Data table of media scan research showing student pedestrian injuries and deaths sustained traveling to or at school bus stops from January 2018 to March 2020.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Provides information about Vision Zero for Youth and strategies for prioritizing youth pedestrian and bicyclist safety with the broader goal of improving safety for all road users.
Read More >Preventing Pedestrian Injuries and Deaths Among School Bus Riders
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Provides an overview of research related to school bus rider pedestrian injuries and deaths. The research team conducted a media scan, examined polices of six school districts, and conducted interviews with three transportation directors.
Read More >Re-envisioning School Streets: Creating More Space for Children and Families
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Describes scenarios for limiting and prohibiting motor vehicle access on a street adjacent to a school including examples from around the globe.
Read More >Safe Steps to the School Bus Stop: How Parents Can Encourage Safe Walking
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Provides tips for parents and caregivers to coach their child to adopt safe behaviors while walking for any trip, with some special considerations for the trip to and from the school bus.
Read More >Ten Actions Needed by Developers Before Deployment of Automated Driving Systems Around Schools
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Summarizes ten recommendations for automated driving system (ADS) developers to consider for broad deployment and safe operation around schools.
Read More >Tips for Parents and Other Adults for Teaching Pedestrian Safety to Children (Spanish version)
Source: National Center for Safe Routes to School
Tip sheet for parents and other adults to teach pedestrian safety to children.
Read More >Tips for Parents and Other Adults for Teaching Pedestrian Safety to Children (English version)
Source: National Center for Safe Routes to School
Tip sheet for parents and other adults to teach pedestrian safety to children.
Read More >Planning Considerations for Walking and Rolling to School in Fall 2020
Describes the benefits of including walking and biking to school in fall school re-opening plans and addresses four main planning questions.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Applies the steps outlined in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 893: Systemic Pedestrian Safety Analysis to present a process for assessing high risk locations for youth pedestrian crashes specifically.
Read More >What Makes a “Biking” School? How Some Schools Have Pulled Ahead in Cycling Rates
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Investigates factors associated with high rates of bicycling to school to identify replicable ways to facilitate active transportation.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Info brief focuses on how events, such as Walk or Bike to School Day, can serve as powerful catalysts for improving safety and building a healthy community for everyone.
Read More >The Benefits of Slowing Down Traffic Starting Where Children Walk and Bike
Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Info brief describes lessons learned on addressing speed through roadway design and operations changes that benefit youth walkers and bicyclists.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Access resources from the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center referenced at the Safe Routes to School 2019 Conference.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Info brief explores 2017 National Household Travel Survey data within the context of students traveling to school.
Read More >Systemic Pedestrian Safety Analysis: Contractor's Technical Report
Source: National Cooperative Highway Research Program and Transportation Research Board (TRB)
The objective of this research was to develop a process, detailed in the Systemic Pedestrian Safety Analysis Guidebook, for (1) conducting systemic pedestrian safety analysis using robust analytical techniques to identify roadway features and other risk factors to consider in a systemic pedestrian safety process; (2) identify appropriate and cost-effective systemic pedestrian safety improvements to address the associated risk factors; and (3) enable transportation agencies to prioritize candidate locations for selected safety improvements based on risk.
Read More >Source: National Center for Safe Routes to School
Provides parents and caregivers an overview of the stages of child development and identifies which walking safety skills to teach along the way.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) and PeopleForBikes
This info brief surveys the impact of connected bike networks and common measurement approaches, and explores tools and strategies to help planning progress.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center maintains a list of State Safe Routes to School contacts.
Read More >Source: Transit Cooperative Research Program and National Cooperative Highway Research Program
TCRP Report 112/NCHRP Report 562: Improving Pedestrian Safety at Unsignalized Crossings will be of interest to state, county, and city traffic engineers; transit agencies; roadway designers; and urban planners, as well as consultants for these groups and agencies. This material provides considerable information and useful guidance for improving pedestriansafety at unsignalized crossings. The report presents the edited final report and Appendix A. TCRP Web-Only Document 30/NCHRP Web-Only Document 91, available on the CRP website, contains appendixes B through O of the contractor's final report.
Read More >Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Riding a bike is fun. It's a great way to get around and to get your daily dose of physical activity. It's good for the environment, and it can save you money. No wonder many communities are encouraging people to ride their bicycles more often!Take a ride with friends or family and decide for yourselves if your neighborhood is a friendly place to ride. If you find problems, see some suggestions of what you can do to make things better.
Read More >Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
This activity can be downloaded and played in small groups within the classroom to complement educational efforts to address safety regarding walking, bicycling and Safe Routes to School.
Read More >Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
The Child Pedestrian Safety Curriculum teaches and encourages pedestrian safety for students grades Kindergarten through 5th Grade.
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