Training & Resources

Guides

SRTS Local Policy Guidebook View Guidebook Georgia SRTS Guidebook View SRTS Guidebook

Resources

The 5 Es

Safe Routes to School is a comprehensive program that includes the 5 Es:

Education

Teaching the school community about the broad range of transportation choices, instructing them in important life-long safety skills and offering school-bound and school area driver safety campaigns

• Atlanta Bicycle Campaign
• American Heart Association
• Bike Rodeos
• Clean Air Campaign Better Air Schools Program
• National Center for SRTS Education
• PEDS Kids Walk
• Safe Kids Georgia
• Walking School Bus Information

Encouragement

Using events and activities to promote walking and bicycling

• American Heart Association and Alliance for a Healthier Generation
• Mile Club and Contests
• Park and Walk
• National Center for SRTS Encouragement
• Walking School Bus Information
• Walk to School Day

Engineering

Creating operational and physical improvements to the infrastructure surrounding schools that reduce speeds and establishing safer crosswalks, walkways, trails and bikeways

• Bikeability Assessment
• National Center for SRTS Engineering
• Walkability Assessment
• Walkable Community Workshops Resources

Evaluation

Monitoring and researching outcomes and trends through the collection of data, including the collection of mode share before and after the program intervention(s)

• Student Arrival and Departure Tally Sheet
• SRTS Parent Survey

Enforcement

Partnering with local law enforcement to ensure drivers obey traffic laws, initiating community enforcement such as crossing guard programs and ensuring that policies are enforced

• http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/guide/enforcement/index.cfm