School-based travel : a mobility assessment

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• Creators:
  Moudon, Anne Vernez ; Lin, Lin
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Washington. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Secretary
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • School children
  • School safety
  • Transportation safety
  • Mobility
  • Risk assessment Safe Routes to School
  • Children active travel
  • children safe travel
  • School neighborhoods
  • School transportation infrastructure
• Publication/ Report Number:
  TNW2010-09
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  Washington
• Edition:
  Final Research Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Transportation Northwest (TransNow) UTC
• Abstract:
  This project contributes to developing a technical infrastructure to support the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program, ; specifically to monitor its growth and to evaluate its effectiveness. Since its inception in 2005, the SRTS program ; mandated by SAFETEA-LU has benefited about 6,489 schools The National Center for Safe Routes to School keeps track ; of these schools by compiling tallies of children walking or biking to school and by collecting parent surveys. Each state ; works to have a fair and effective distribution of resources to the neediest schools. ; This proposal adds to an on-going Pooled Fund project spearheaded by the Washington State Department of ; Transportation to support information exchanges and research between several participating states, including Florida, ; Texas, Mississippi, and Wisconsin. Over the past two years, the PI and her team have been working with WSDOT to ; provide technical support to members of the Pooled Fund. This proposal is to fill a relatively small but very important gap ; in the current knowledge about SRTS: that is the lack of data on the schools specific locations. Having spatial data on the ; location of schools will facilitate the selection of SRTS projects and the monitoring the SRTS programs over time. We ; propose to geocode schools nationwide in relation to existing transportation facilities. This would enable state SRTS ; coordinators to quickly evaluate the schools proximity to different types of transportation facilities and to establish their ; related level of exposure to traffic. Geocoded schools would also allow coordinators to analyze the characteristics of the ; neighborhoods around the schools based on spatial data that are readily available from the US Census.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT07-G-0010
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18662/dot_18662_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.26 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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