Where can I find a link to the National Center for Safe Routes to Schools report showing baseline information on travel modes?
A. The National Center for Safe Routes to School released (January 2010) a new national report on Safe Routes to School (SRTS) travel data. The report, entitled Safe Routes to School Travel Data: A Look at Baseline Results from Parent Surveys and Student Travel Tallies, provides a summary of school travel data that local SRTS programs throughout the United States collected from April 2007 to May 2009. The full press release is available at www.saferoutesinfo.org/news_room/2010-02-04_srts_baseline_report.cfm The full report is available at www.saferoutesinfo.org/resources/travel_data_reports.cfm ** *KEY FINDINGS INCLUDE:* – Distance to school is strongly associated with how children get to and from school. The proportion of children walking or bicycling to school is much greater among those who live closer to school. – Across all grades, the family car and school bus were the two most frequently used options for travel to/from school. Walking was third. However, there are notable differ
