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Table of Contents

1. Establishing, Implementing, Stregnthening, and Funding  Safe Routes to School
2. Safe Routes to School Reports
3. Safe Routes to School Policy

Establishing, Implementing, Stregnthening, and Funding  Safe Routes to School

Bicycle and Pedestrian Curricula Guide (SRTSNP)
June 27, 2011. This resource is intended to give Safe Routes to School practitioners, teachers, school administrators and others the necessary background information to fully understand the positive benefits of teaching bicycle and pedestrian education in the classroom, and to provide these audiences with easy access to currently available curricula. (PDF)(2.3MB)

Bicycle and Pedestrian Curricula Guide: Making the Case for Bicycle and Pedestrian Youth Education

Establishing a Safe Routes to School State Network: A 10-Step Guide (SRTSNP)
This March 2008 guide describes a process that can be used in any state to bring together diverse partners, create a SRTS State Network, and initiate policy changes that will make it safer and easier for children to be able to walk and bicycle to schools. (PDF)(422KB)

Establishing a Safe Routes to School State Network: A 10-Step Guide

Implementing Safe Routes to School in Low-Income Schools and Communities (SRTS National Partnership)

This 2010 report from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership (SRTSNP) includes specific tips for getting started with SRTS in low-income communities. It also includes an overview and explanation of six key challenges often identified in implementing SRTS in low-income schools and communities. (PDF)(1.9MB)

Implementing Safe Routes to School in Low-Income Schools and Communities (SRTSNP)

 

Strengthening Safe Routes Programs - 7/25/2012 (Alliance)

Safe Routes to School programs positively impact health and safety, ease traffic congestion, reduce busing costs, and are good for the environment. Safe Routes — in all 50 states and with over 12,000 schools in participation — has clearly taken off at the state and local level. To demonstrate successes to decision makers, organizations need to develop metrics and evaluation techniques. On the July 25, 2012 Mutual Aid Call, panelists Robert Ping, Ian Thomas and Ana Validzic discussed how they have bolstered these important programs with state-level and local evaluation and action. (PDF) (MP3)

Strengthening Safe Routes tip sheet
Call recording

So Many Choices, So Many Ways to Choose: How Five State DOTs Select SRTS for Funding (WSDOT)
Because demand for federal Safe Routes to School funding far exceeds most states' budgets for their program, state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) must carefully select the Safe Routes to School proposals that receive an award. This June 2011 report from a Safe Routes to School study, which was conducted in partnership by the Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin DOTs compares how the five state DOTs select the most promising Safe Routes to school proposals for funding. It reviews how the five states approach the selection process by considering grant types, Safe Routes to School plans, eligibility requirements, program distribution policies, proposal review processes and established selection criteria.

So Many Choices, So Many Ways to Choose: How Five State DOTs Select SRTS for Funding (PDF)(3MB)

Maryland Driver's Manual Changes (Bike Maryland)
Thanks to the efforts of a diverse coalition of regional groups that worked closely with the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration and State Highway Administration, a revision to the Maryland State Driver's Manual that addresses sharing the road with bicycles is being issued in Fall 2011. This Manual will serve as the basis for improved driver's education and new driver's licensing examination questions. It is hoped that this can serve as a model for other jurisdictions as a means of introducing bicycle safety education into the automobile drivers' mindset early in their training.

 

Maryland Driver's Manual Changes (PDF)

Transportation Acronyms (League of Michigan Bicyclists)

This document from the League of Michigan Bicyclists outlines common transportation acronyms.

Transportation Acronyms (DOC)

Safe Routes to School Reports 

Safe Routes to School State Network Project: 2008 Annual Progress Report (SRTSNP)
Released in March 2009, this report provides an update on major State Network Project accomplishments in 2008, lessons learned, state summaries, and the Local School Project. (PDF)(733KB)

Safe Routes to School State Network Project: 2008 Annual Progress Report - Building Momentum and Policy Change

Safe Routes to School State Network Project: Final Report, 2007 - 2009 (SRTSNP)
Published in November 2009, this report summarizes the progress that the State Network Project has achieved in its three years of operation, outlines lessons learned, highlights accomplishments in each State Network and suggests next steps to maintain the momentum necessary to build the SRTS program at state levels. (PDF)(3.1MB)

Safe Routes to School State Network Project: Final Report, 2007-2009, Making Change Through Partners and Policies

Safe Routes to School Policy

2011 Policy Report (Safe Routes to School National Partnership)
This 2011 Policy Report outlines the goals and accomplishments of Safe Routes to School and underscores the benefits and cost-savings that the program offers. (PDF)

Safe Routes to School: Helping Communities Save Lives and Dollars

State Network Policy Successes: 2007-2010 (SRTSNP)
June 27, 2011. The Safe Routes to School state network project first started in 2007 with ten states; by 2010, the project had grown to include 19 states and the District of Columbia.This report reviews selected accomplishments from the 20 state networks during 2010, and from the 10 networks during the first three years of the program. (PDF)(709KB)

State Network Policy Successes: 2007-2010

Safe Routes to School Local Policy Guide (Safe Routes to School National Partnership)
This June 2011 guide from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership aims to to "help local communities and schools create, enact and implement policies which will support active and healthy community environments that encourage safe walking and bicycling and physical activity by children." It includes numerous helpful and diverse examples of policies from communities across the U.S.

Safe Routes to School Local Policy Guide (PDF) 

Safe Routes to School: State Networks Create Policy Change (SRTSNP)
The Safe Routes to School National Partnership is implementing the State Network Project to ensure program success and leverage resources by creating SRTS State Networks in nine states and the District of Columbia. The following report, released in September 2008, outlines how State Networks can create policy change. (PDF)(1.6MB)

Safe Routes to School: State Networks Create Policy Change

The Second Wave: State Network Policy Changes in 20 States (SRTSNP)
June 27, 2011. The Safe Routes to School state network project first started in 2007 with ten states; by 2010, the project had grown to include 19 states and the District of Columbia. This report describes the strategies, partners, successes and lessons learned from the SRTS state network project in 2010. (PDF)(3.1MB)

The Second Wave: State Network Policy Changes in 20 States

Winning Local Policies to Advance Safe Routes to School- 7/27/11 (Alliance)
On July 27, 2011, the Alliance hosted a Mutual Aid Call highlighting and delving into the new local policy guide from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. Panelists included Dave Cowan, Program Manager for the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, Diana Owens, Assistant Director of Education for Safe Routes Philly and Jessica Osborne, Active Community Environments Coordinator for the Colorado Department of Health.

Call recording (MP3)