Specifications include, but are not limited to: Purpose Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) updated their policy statement on child pedestrian safety. In order to reduce the number of fatalities from childhood pedestrian injury, promote active transportation, and increase physical activity, the AAP calls for communities to adopt and promote policies, programs, and legislation that result in a safer environment for youth pedestrians. The purpose of this project is to study how policies, programs, and the built environment affects whether children travel to school using active transportation, injury and fatality rates, and physical activity. ECWRPC intends to work with a consultant to develop a report and case study for each participating school that identifies best practices and policies and data analysis for the following items: (1) Understand the reasons behind youth and their parent’s choice of transportation mode to and from school; (2) Examine the relationship between the transportation choices, the built environment, and physical activity; (3) Identify features of the built environment that increase or decrease the likelihood of injury. It is expected that most of the data will be locally derived; (4) Identify policies that promote or hinder active transportation; and (5) Conduct a comparative analysis of the cost of various changes to the built environment for the community versus the cost of youth bicycle and pedestrian injuries and fatalities to the community.
