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Education programs are primarily aimed at helping children build their pedestrian, bicycling, traffic, and social skills, but also include programs that educate parents and other motorists.
Encouragement through activities, programs, and contests, provides incentives for children to walk and ride to school.
Enforcement increases awareness and reduces the frequency of crime and traffic safety problems.
Engineering includes improvements to the built environment that improve the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists. These infrastructure improvements include traffic calming measures that reduce speed, improve street crossings and improve children's visibility and safety, installing sidewalks and bike paths, and improving safety where pedestrians cross streets.
Evaluation is the final "E". It is important for school teams to evaluate their programs on a regular basis to determine what is working, what isn't working, and what changes might be needed to make their program more effective.
A walking school bus is a group of children who walk to school accompanied by an adult. It is just that simple. There are many combinations of walking school buses- it can be as simple as two neigh-boring families who take turns walking each other’s children to school. Or it can grow to be a structured, well-planned program with a larger group of children that join “the bus” as you walk to school. More Information...