Effects of Large-Scale Municipal Safe Routes to School Infrastructure on Student Active Travel and Physical Activity: Design, Methods, and Baseline Data of the Safe Travel Environment Evaluation in Texas Schools (STREETS) Natural Experiment

• Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 3; p. 1810
• Main Authors: Hoelscher, Deanna M, Ganzar, Leigh Ann, Salvo, Deborah, Kohl, 3rd, Harold W, Pérez, Adriana, Brown, Henry Shelton, Bentley, Sarah S, Dooley, Erin E, Emamian, Amir, Durand, Casey P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 05.02.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Bicycling; Children & youth; Commuting; Costs; Cross-Sectional Studies; Demography; Design; Engineering; Environment Design; Evaluation; Exercise; Experiments; Funding; Humans; Hypotheses; Infrastructure; Physical activity; Prospective Studies; Residence Characteristics; Schools; Students; Texas; Transportation - methods; Travel; Walking; Texas; United States > US; active commuting; natural experiment; Safe Routes to School; children; physical activity

Past evaluations of Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs have been relatively small in scope and have lacked objective measurements of physical activity. A 2016 Mobility Bond in Austin, Texas, USA, allocated USD 27.5 million for infrastructure changes to facilitate active commuting to schools (ACS)...