This research project presents a conceptual overview of the policy issue of school siting via an education module and introduces a practitioner tool to support the school siting decision making process. As previous research outlines, school siting, or the physical location of a school, can impact school travel rates and costs. This module and decision support tools enables practitioners to identify and compare the tradeoffs in up-front land costs with ongoing transport costs. The education module, hosted online, was developed for use in graduate courses in urban planning, engineering, and education and continuing education workshops in school siting and pupil transportation.
This study developed three instructional modules using data from several safety projects conducted at University of Florida. Module 1 is focused on qu...
The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) provides analytical tools to conduct quantitative safety analyses. Part B of the HSM discusses all six steps in the ro...
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