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TRANSPORT POLICY
Volume 24, Issue -, Pages 240-248Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.06.016
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Safe Routes to School; Walk; Pedestrian; Bike; Child; Safety
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The primary goals of Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs are to increase the number and safety of children walking, biking or using other forms of active travel to school (ATS). This study reviewed quantitative and qualitative research and identified eight common factors that influenced the choice of ATS: distance to school, parental fear of traffic and crime, family schedule constraints and values, neighborhood and family resources and culture, weather, and school characteristics. Suggestions were made as to how these barriers and facilitators of ATS could be integrated into the decision to fund local SRTS programs and to improve their effectiveness. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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