Chris Lucas, The RBA Group
Joe Menzer, The RBA Group
Joshua Benson, New York City Department of Transportation, New York

Walk through the data-driven process used by the New York City Department of Transportation’s School Safety Engineering Program and engage in sample analysis and recommendations.

Preliminary Study: Correlation between Daily Walking School Bus Participation and Academic and Behavioral improvements

Ian Thomas, PedNet Coalition, Inc., Missouri
Mark Fenton, Walking Expert
Stephen Sayers, University of Missouri

Learn about the promising, preliminary results of a University of Missouri research study that indicates academic and behavioral improvements are correlated with walking to school.

Using Data from Student Travel Tallies to Inform SRTS-Related Policies

Ana Validzic, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Ellen Robinson, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Learn how Safe Routes to School San Francisco partnered with University of California San Francisco to collect student travel tally data to use as a baseline for a new school reassignment policy.

Sara Zimmerman, Public Health Law & Policy/NPLAN, California

Learn about the realities behind the fear of liability in a SRTS program, understand the very limited nature of any risk, and discover steps you can take to minimize liability risks.

Integrating Safe Routes to School at the Regional Level: The Case of the San Diego Region
Bridget Enderle, San Diego Association of Governments, California
Katherine Judd, County of San Diego, Health and Human Services Agency, California

Hear how two San Diego government agencies have collaborated on an effort to expand the role of SRTS in regional planning and develop a regional strategy to support SRTS initiatives. 


Translating SRTS Evaluation to Countywide Policy
Carolina Gutierrez, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine WalkSafe™ program, Florida
Derek Slagle, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine WalkSafe™ program, Florida

Discover how the WalkSafe™ pedestrian injury prevention and health program in Miami Dade has created a countywide surveillance system using SRTS evaluation principles

Personal Security: Perceptions, Realities, and SRTS Strategies to Address Both
Diane Lambert, National Center for Safe Routes to School, Maryland

Learn how SRTS programming can be one strategy to address common personal security concerns parents have about letting their children walk or bicycle to school.


SRTS: The Middle School Transition in Low Socio-Economic Status (SES) Communities
Dane Lotspeich, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California

Gain a better understanding of the challenges encountered and potential solutions when implementing SRTS programs in lower SES communities and specifically, with middle-school-aged children.

The Role of Neighborhood Partnerships in Successful SRTS Programs
Jennifer Pyrz, St. Thomas Aquinas School/Parsons Brinckerhoff, Indiana

Hear how three private schools and one public school on the north side of Indianapolis have worked together to develop SRTS plans, secure grant funding and coordinate events.


What’s in your toolbox? Creating Community Collaboration for a Successful SRTS Program
Ellen Walston, Eastern Carolina Injury Prevention Program

Hear how the Eastern Carolina Injury Prevention Program created a community-wide Pedestrian Safety Task Force to address concerns at a local middle school.

Transportation Planning and Public Health: Working Together to Make Safe Routes to School
Ryan Snyder, Ryan Snyder Associates
Louisa Franco, Los Angeles County Policies for Livable, Active Communities and Environments (PLACE) Program
Patti Horsley, California Department of Public Health

Hear about the collaborative SRTS efforts of public health staff, transportation engineers, land use planners and school officials in California and get a glimpse of a new mapping resource to identify pedestrian and bicycle injury and collision data.


Successful Safe Routes: It Takes a Village
Ben Hammer, MassRIDES, Massachusetts

Discover how the Massachusetts SRTS program effectively collaborates with YMCAs, community health departments, law enforcement agencies and others to promote sustainable initiatives based on the five Es.

Scalable Efforts to Integrate Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Education into SRTS Initiatives
Kelly Corbin, Olmsted County Public Health Services, Minnesota
Charlie Quigg, Olmsted County Public Health Services, Minnesota

Walk through the step-by-step process that Olmsted County Public Health staff took as they integrated pedestrian and bicycle safety education into the physical education curriculum at local school districts.


The Bicycle Transportation Alliance's Bicycle Safety Education Curriculum
Carl Larson, Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Oregon
LeeAnne Fergason, Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Oregon

Learn how your community can use the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s Bike Commute Challenge and the Walk+Bike Challenge Month to help increase participation and empower organizers, creating sustainable programs that change transportation habits.

Mix it up to:

Explore car-free zones … fire up your feet… check out heart rate monitors, RFID tags and online tracking tools … expand countywide

Parent Engagement with Fire Up Your Feet!
Jill Chamberlain, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Minnesota
Jill Oldenburg, local organizer, Minnesota

Catch the buzz around Fire Up Your Feet! — a new interactive website community to encourage families to get physically active, be healthy and create livable, sustainable communities. Filled with resources, incentives, social networking and tools for school fundraising, the program is being piloted in Minnesota and will roll out nationwide in 2012.

Innovative Technology + Rewards = Happy and Healthy Kids
Zachary Noffsinger, Boltage, Colorado
Leslie Luciano, Bicycle Sport Shop, Texas

Come see a demo of the innovative and proven Boltage technology.  Used in 35 schools, the Boltage program uses RFID tags to automatically record students walking and biking trips and mileage travelled.  Boltage has developed various low-cost incentive programs that rely on this data to significantly increase the number of active transportation trips taken by kids.

No Tech to High-Tech
Tim Starback, Saveagallon, California

Come see an example of inexpensive dependable/proven barcode technology designed to help measure your Active Transportation programs. It's flexible enough to be used once a month or every day.We can also text, email or phone a parent that the child just arrived at school. Get a whole school system for 200 students for less than $400. We are only accepting 20 school for next year and or 10,000 students.

How a Countywide SRTS Program Can Encourage Physical Activity
Virginia Loehr, La Crosse County Health Department, Wisconsin

Get tips for how to successfully structure a countywide SRTS program, involve the county health department, and work with community coalitions who share the same goal of tackling the obesity issue. Attendees can take samples of various materials used for educational and encouragement activities that they can edit for their own use or sign up to receive samples via e-mail.

Green Ways to School

Wendi Kallins, Marin County Bicycle Coalition, California

Hear how Marin County Safe Routes to Schools developed Green Ways to School, an approach that uses climate change to inspire students and their parents to choose a “green” way to school.

Feetnotfuel.com: Using Technology to Promote SRTS

Kim Smith, Space Coast TPO, Florida

Discover how the feetnotfuel.com website can encourage and educate students and parents on the benefits of walking and bicycling to school with its variety of features.

GIS Tools to Help Allocate Infrastructure Funds
Michael Lowry, University of Idaho, Idaho
Brooke Lowry, SR2S, Moscow, Idaho
Helen Brown, University of Idaho, Idaho

Discover innovative and easy-to-use GIS tools to help map and prioritize SRTS infrastructure improvements.


Edina Speed Zone Study and Implementation
Charles Rickart, WSB & Associates Inc., Minnesota
Wayne Houle, City of Edina, Minnesota

Hear how the City of Edina, Minn., used SRTS funding to work closely with the local school district and implement a citywide school speed zone study.

Doing Well by Doing Good
Heather Fortune, Saris Cycling Group, Madison, Wisconsin

Learn creative ways for forging partnerships with local businesses from the perspective of Saris Cycling Group, a corporation with a demonstrated commitment to bicycling advocacy and to supporting local SRTS efforts.


SRTS … It Takes A Community!
Cyndi Anderson, Mosaic Consulting, Inc., Minnesota
Brad Green, City of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
Ted Heisserer, Detroit Lakes School District, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota

Hear how the City of Detroit Lakes, the Detroit Lakes School District, Regional Chamber of Commerce and business community all participated in the SRTS planning processes and how it has been incorporated into the city's overall Master Design Plan.

Amy Birney, ORCAS, Oregon
Paula Bawer, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Shane MacRhodes, Eugene 4J School District, Eugene, Oregon

Get inspired to implement a middle-school safety skills education program as the panel shares examples of programs that have successfully overcome challenges and engaged preteens and early teens.

Innovative Approaches to Connecting Students with Disabilities to Safe Routes to School
Linda F. Patrick, Michigan Fitness Foundation, Safe Routes to School Program, Michigan
Lauren Holaly, Crim Fitness Foundation, Michigan

Hear how three projects funded by Michigan’s SRTS program have used different and innovative approaches to successfully increase the voice and participation of students with disabilities in local-level planning processes and programs.


Programming Beyond Inclusion: A Tailored Pedestrian Safety Curriculum for Children with Special Needs
Christine Stinson, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine WalkSafe™ Program
Katherine Swidarski, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine WalkSafe™ Program

Hear how the University of Miami WalkSafe™ program developed and is piloting its Modified Curriculum for Children with Special Needs.

Julie Danzl, Minneapolis Public Schools, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Other presenters representing school resource officer, Minneapolis Public Works
Minneapolis Public Schools Safety & Security and parents

Learn best practices for safe and smooth arrival and dismissal of walkers, bikers, family vehicles, and busses.

Tia Felts, PedNet Coalition, Inc., Missouri
Ian Thomas, PedNet Coalition, Inc., Missouri

Learn how to recruit, train, coordinate and retain volunteers through the experience of the PedNet Coalition, which has developed volunteer program best practices that apply in every community.

Dorian Grilley, Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota
Jessica Wineburg Binder, Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin
Margo Pedroso, Safe Routes to School National Partnership

Learn why gaining broad-based support from influential policymakers is important to your SRTS program’s ultimate sustainability and gain tips on how to do advocacy effectively.

Mix it up to:

Plan for snow … generate funding … consider different gender attitudes … get a SRTS Head Start … prevent injuries

Ensuring Safe Routes to School in the Winter
Jan Vanderwall, Roseville Area Schools, Roseville, Minnesota

Discover how a city and school district that each operate independently can cooperate to schedule snowplowing so that routes to school are plowed in a timely manner, as well as work together to plan strategies for optimal pathway placement.

Homegrown on Your Own – Starting a Safe Routes to School Program
Kara Sergile, Parent organizater/KWS Consulting, California

Follow the journey of how a SRTS program was started at a large, urban, ethnically diverse public elementary school without funding or external resources, and hear creative ideas for generating funding.

Gender Differences in Children’s Bicycling Habits
Sean Meehan, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Gain insights into the differing behavior, travel patterns, attitudes and experiences between girls and boys that may be helpful to consider when designing effective bicycling education and encouragement programs. Survey highlights cover parental encouragement; school policies; riding on sidewalks, driveways and streets; helmet ownership and usage; falls and crashes.

Safer Routes for Head Start
Kristin Rosenthal, Safe Kids USA, Washington, DC

Hear about best practices for addressing the lack of knowledge parents and caregivers have about pedestrian and passenger safety for children ages three to five. Safe Kids USA will share how coalitions in four metropolitan cities used a “train the trainer” methodology at local Head Start centers to educate center instructors, who then trained parents/caregivers.

Tulsa Hub Bike Clubs: The Perfect Storm
Ren Barger, Tulsa Hub, Oklahoma

Gain insights and lessons learned about how to develop multi-agency collaboration and use SRTS dollars to leverage private investment in programs using a grassroots model. Tulsa’s "Earn a Bike to School" after-school cycling clubs operate at seven Title 1 elementary schools. Each club is set up like a micro-venture, where evaluation and sustainability are continually ongoing.

Carolyn Szczepanski, Alliance for Biking & Walking, Washington
Sarah Shipley, Missouri Foundation for Bicycling and Walking/co-organizer of the Missouri Safe Routes to School Network, Missouri

Discover how to build community support, increase participation and entice partners (and funders) to your work through media coverage by learning how to identify your news-worthy stories, frame pitches and write a press release.

Katherine Mencarini, Toole Design Group
Diane Lambert, National Center for Safe Routes to School, North Carolina
Leigh Ann Von Hagen, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Learn how certain school policies — or lack of a policy — can discourage SRTS programs; discover tips and tools that can be applied at the district and state level to address policy barriers.

Student Leaders: Agents of Change Across the School Community
Arthur Orsini, Stantec Consulting Ltd., Vancouver, Canada
Liz Caster, City of Tacoma, Washington

Walk through the steps to effectively recruiting, motivating and supporting student leaders for your SRTS program through the experience of a proven model used with Tacoma’s Stadium High School Bike Crew.


Youth: We Can Help
Kaylen Larson, National Organization for Youth Safety and FCCLA, Minnesota

Discover how peer-to-peer SRTS education is key in helping youth influence their peers, gain ideas on already-tested projects, and hear creative ways to engage youth in taking charge of the issue.

Marjorie Marciano, New York City Department of Transportation
Michelle Kaucic, New York City Department of Transportation

Hear about the variety of successful traffic safety education initiatives developed and implemented in New York City, the use of data in educational outreach, public and private partnerships, and creating curricula for use in a multi-cultural, urban environment.

Establishing and Sustaining Partnerships to Promote Safe Routes to School
Jessie Jones, Center for Healthy Communities at the Michigan Public Health Institute, Michigan
Tristen Anthony, Center for Healthy Communities at the Michigan Public Health Institute, Michigan
Sue Howe, La Crescent Area Healthy Community Partnership, Minnesota
Keely Ihry, Clay County Public Health, Minnesota

Explore best practices related to creating, maintaining and strengthening community partnerships to achieve SRTS program success.


Creating a Successful Partnership Between the Schools and City Government: One Metro Area's Success
East Grand Forks Metropolitan Planning Organization, Minnesota
Carma Hanson, Safe Kids Grand Forks, North Dakota
Patty Olsen, Safe Kids Grand Forks, North Dakota

Learn from leaders in Grand Forks, N.D. and East Grand Forks, Minn., how data collection, communication and bringing various city departments together with the schools and community early and often is key to planning a great SRTS program.

Walk/Bike to School Day Events: Who Knew Strategic Events Could Be So Fun?
Kim Milbrath, Invitation Health and Wellness
Katherine Bass, Parent Organizer and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Eagan, Minnesota

Walk through the specific steps to build on the fun of your Walk/Bike to School day and turn them into a strategic event that leads to policy and systems changes.


Walk to School Day: How Communities are Kicking it Up a Notch
Nancy Pullen, National Center for Safe Routes to School
Rosie Stern, Michigan Fitness Foundation

Hear two different perspectives on new ways to build excitement around the Walk to School Day celebration and hear about trends and changes in the event in the past eight years that could inspire your plans.

Royce Yeater, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Maryland
Bonnie McDonald, Executive Director, Preservation Alliance of Minnesota

Learn about barriers to good school siting decisions, the Influence of state policy and practices, and hear preliminary research results about the impact of minimum acreage requirements.

Mix it up to:

Develop a tailored plan … create sustainable programs … coordinate action strategies … streamline state funding processes … plan district-wide

Creating a Comprehensive Safe Routes to School Plan: Where to Start
Kris Jenson, Dakota County Public Health, Minnesota
JoNette Kuhnau, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc., Minnesota

Description:
Discover how to affordably develop a SRTS plan that examines the five Es and is tailored to the needs and circumstances at each school. Dakota County Public Health completed a planning process with 10 schools in just four months and developed a straightforward process to lay out initial and long-term steps to improve walking and biking that can be adapted to an individual school, district or city.

Planning Your SRTS Program
Reed Dunbar, SAA Design Group, Madison, Wisconsin

Description:
Gain insights into the effective approach that the SRTS planning consultant for the Wisconsin DOT uses for crafting a dynamic and coordinated action strategy that is based on actual local conditions and attitudes. Discover examples of how SRTS coordinators can navigate the vast menu of SRTS programs available, pare them down for strategic implementation, and use all five Es in a way that ensures program consistency and preserves resources.

Developing a Methodology for Large School District SRTS Plans
Julie Walcoff, David Shipps, Ohio DOT, TranSystems, Ohio

Hear how the Ohio Department of Transportation is researching the development of a streamlined district-wide School Travel Plan (STP) Procedure for large school districts.  A four-school facility limitation in the present system was intended to promote an equitable distribution of funding, but in practice it is time-consuming, inefficient, and costly for school districts with more than fifteen K-8 facilities that must complete multiple STP’s prior to obtaining project funds.

We Have a Plan
Dario Gonzalez, Natomas Unified School District; California

Description:
Learn from the experience of Safe Routes Natomas how to develop a comprehensive 12-step strategic plan for SRTS at the district level by uniting city transportation officials, bike/ped advocates, local nonprofit agencies, community volunteers, principals, the superintendent and school board.

Nora Cody, TransForm, California

Caroline Dickson, National Center for Safe Routes to School, North Carolina

Patti Horsley, California Safe Routes to School Technical Assistance Resource Center, California

Discover how to tailor your SRTS talking points to achieve maximum “selling” power for different audiences – including low-income Spanish speaking families and school principals. Gain insight into how/where you could be tying the SRTS message into the context of larger issues and concerns, such as economic factors and distracted driving prevention.

Christopher J. Seeger, Iowa State University Extension, Iowa
Tami Larson, Iowa Department of Public Health, Iowa
Alan Jensen, Iowa State University Extension, Iowa
Catherine Lillehoj, Iowa Department of Public Health, Iowa

Hear how technology and facilitated Volunteered Geographic Information from the general public can provide information that is useful in SRTS planning, assessment and evaluation.

Making it the Norm to Make Routes Safe
Elaine Clegg, Idaho Smart Growth, Idaho

Explore the impact of the latest Smart Growth research on supporting SRTS and how to bring disparate interests and partners together to save time and expense in planning for long-term success.


Keeping Your Schools Located Close to Kids: The Story of Billings, Montana
Kathleen Aragon, Eat Right Montana, Montana

Explore the importance of school siting, discover site assessment tools, and learn how to advocate for policies that minimize sprawl and keep schools close to the children they serve.

Reed Dunbar, SAA Design Group, Wisconsin
Barbara Messick, Raymond School, Wisconsin

Get inspired as you hear how students at a school in rural southeast Wisconsin were empowered to start planning for an SRTS program after three cycling fatalities within the district in the past three years.

Are Your Underserved Communities Receiving their Fair Share of SRTS Funding?
Brent Hugh, Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation/Missouri SRTS Network, Missouri
Eric Bunch, Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation/Missouri SRTS Network, Missouri
Sarah Shipley, Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation/Missouri SRTS Network, Missouri

Learn how SRTS leaders in Missouri analyzed their SRTS funding and found that communities of color and low-income populations were receiving less than their fair share.

What Does Housing, Community Gardens, Maternal Child Health Programs and Violence Prevention Efforts Have to do with Safe Routes to School
Jennifer J. Wiczorek, Denver Public Health, Denver, Colorado

Hear how SRTS in West Denver is bringing together interdisciplinary partners to collaborate on innovative strategies and leverage funding.

Amanda McEldowney, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Ohio
Julie Walcoff, Ohio Department of Transportation
Kate Moening, City of Gahanna Parks & Recreation, Gahanna, Ohio
Andrea Moening, student, Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools District

Hear how the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission took the lead in facilitating cross-agency collaboration to create a successful regional SRTS approach.

From 0 to 100: How One School Transformed from No Biking to the Most Successful Bike Train in the City
Gabriel Graff, Portland Bureau of Transportation, Portland, Oregon
Taylor Sutton, Portland Bureau of Transportation, Portland, Oregon

Learn how volunteers transformed a North Portland school environment where nobody walked or biked and made it home to the most successful bike train in the city.


The Community and SRTS: Together We Can Do It
George Beran, Greenleaf Elementary School, Apple Valley, Minnesota

Discover how one community successfully generated enthusiasm for SRTS among different groups and created a safe crossing for a four-lane undivided road with law enforcement support.

Michia Casebier, Nichols Consulting Engineers, Chtd., Nevada
Christian Heinbaugh, Nichols Consulting Engineers, Chtd., Nevada
Michael Enis, Tohono O’odham Community Action, Arizona
Brian Fellows, Arizona Dept. of Transportation, Arizona

Hear how the Arizona SRTS program provides targeted technical assistance grants to urban, tribal and small, lower-income rural communities and works with them in ways that respect their traditions, languages and cultures.

Mix it up to:

Evaluate thoroughly … engage teens in bicycling … integrate SRTS into curriculum … leverage private investment

Teaching Children About Bicycle Safety: Challenges in Program Evaluation
Leigh Ann Von Hagen, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Discover tips for thoroughly evaluating a bicycle education program from the experience of the NJBikeSchool program implemented during PE classes and in municipal summer camps. Pre- and post-tests were designed to assess bicycling knowledge acquired by children during the training.

Build a Better Bike Brigade
Ian Thomas, PedNet Coalition, Inc., Missouri
Gina Overshiner, PedNet Coalition, Inc., Missouri

Hear how the PedNet Coalition has addressed cost, safety and social barriers to bicycling and expanded its Middle School Bike Brigade from an intermittent weekly ride to a daily year-round program involving more than a dozen teenagers, several of whom are girls. Through an after-school Bike Club and the Bike Brigade, the group of students has developed an identity around their choice of the bicycle as transportation and gained the admiration of many of their peers.

SRTS as a Theme Throughout the Curriculum
Kristina Fields, University of Wisconsin Platteville, Wisconsin

Explore examples of how SRTS has been incorporated into elementary, middle school and undergraduate curriculums, including math, civics, physical education, undergraduate and graduate education, and undergraduate transportation engineering.

Implementation of a Comprehensive SRTS Pedestrian Safety Program
Carma Hanson, Safe Kids Grand Forks, North Dakota

Discover how Safe Kids Grand Forks’ multifaceted and comprehensive SRTS program emphasizes all the Es of injury prevention and has resulted in a 42 percent decrease in pedestrian injuries over the past five years. Get easy-to-implement strategies that you can replicate in your own community.

Ashley Winchell, City of Kansas City, Missouri - Department of Public Works
Sarah Worthington, City of Kansas City, Missouri - Health Department

Discover more about social marketing and learn how a targeted approach can benefit your SRTS program by hearing the experience of Active Living KC.

Abigail Gamble; SRTS State Network Project, Mississippi
Andrea Plummer, SRTS State Network Project, Kentucky

Discover how to use coalitions and advocacy groups to create “top-down” and “bottom-up” effects at the local and state levels for Complete Streets, learning from the experiences of Kentucky and Mississippi.

Race, Class and Culture: How Safe Routes to School and Social Equity Can Walk and Bike Together
Robert Ping, Safe Routes to School National Partnership, Oregon

Learn how SRTS programs in five states are working to address accessibility and participation disparities in diverse and low-income communities and the policy solutions being developed at the national level.


Caminamos Juntos:Engaging our diverse community in Safe Routes to School
Carolina Iraheta Gonzalez, Safe Routes to School, Portland, Oregon

Learn how the Portland Ore. SRTS is actively working to engage parent leaders from the Latino community in leading walk and bike activities.

Colorado Crossing Guard Program
Marissa Robinson, Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado

Hear about a Colorado statewide program that addresses the often-requested need for crossing guard training and established Adult School Crossing Guard Guidelines.


Adult School Crossing Guards: An Assessment of Training and Work Conditions
Sean Meehan, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Leigh Ann Von Hagen, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Gain a better understanding of the issues and hazards facing crossing guards on a daily basis and the varying quality and consistency of their training and placement nationwide.

Lessons from Florida’s School Crossing Guard Training Program
Pat Pieratte, Florida Safe Routes to School Coordinator, Florida Department of Transportation, FL

Hear highlights of Florida’s School Crossing Guard Train the Trainer Program, which was established in 1992 and has become a national model.

Environmental Public Health and SRTS: Achieving Common Goals
Arthur Wendel, Centers for Disease Control, Georgia

Hear how public health and the SRTS community are working together to implement evidence-based strategies that help children be active, safe and healthy.


Designing Healthy Communities with Maps
Matthew Baker, ESRI, California

Discover the mapping and design capabilities of a Geographic Information System through a series of interactive and live demos of site design of safe school zones.

Developing a Bicycling Culture: The Omro Story
Joe Horvath, Omro Middle School, Wisconsin

Hear how a small rural Wisconsin school creatively developed infrastructure and programs to achieve their vision of a bicycling culture.


Bicycle Safety Instead of Bicycle Rodeos
Dawn Groth, Anchorage Safe Routes 4U, Anchorage, Alaska

Discover an approach to bicycle safety that concentrates specifically on teaching skills and instilling habits that will help reduce the most common errors that lead to youth motor/bicycle collisions.

Pam Barth, National Center for Safe Routes to School, North Carolina
Carol Paola, Center for Civic Education, Mississippi
Kim Wiley-Schwartz, New York City Department of Transportation

Hear how students themselves are increasingly providing the impetus for SRTS programs, and learn from examples of successful youth engagement among National Center mini-grant recipients and among NYC DOT youth engagement initiatives.

Mix it up to:

Connect with colleges … find a team of champions … partner with nonprofits … adapt to redistricting changes … think outside the box … maximize social media

Achieving Safe Routes to School Goals Through University Service Learning Projects
Brooke Lowry, SR2S Idaho, Idaho

Discover the benefits of collaborating with university professors and tapping into community service learning projects to achieve SRTS goals. Hear how SR2S Idaho worked with a graduate-level civil engineering class at the University of Idaho on a service learning project and how the framework could be adapted for use with university classes in health, math, urban planning, environmental science and geography.

Wellness Teams: A Vehicle for Successful SRTS Programs
Heidi Skildum, Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness, Iowa

Get tips from for developing an entire team of SRTS champions by establishing a school wellness team. The WK Kellogg Food and Fitness Initiative of Northeast Iowa works with 14 wellness teams comprised of school staff, parents, city officials and community members who work to promote health, nutrition and physical activity for students, support SRTS and build capacity for policy change.

Filling in the Gaps: How Community Nonprofits are Helping
Lauren Holaly, Crim Fitness Foundation, Michigan

Get inspired by hearing how nonprofit community organizations and local advocates are working directly with schools in resource-limited communities in Michigan to provide technical assistance, leadership and action plan development support for SRTS programs, despite the lack of direct leadership from schools. Pick up resources that will help you cultivate relationships and integrate SRTS into a broader community culture.

Strong Partnerships Lead to SRTS Success
Cheryl Burnette, City of Decatur, Georgia
Fred Boykin, City of Decatur, Georgia

Learn how an established SRTS program’s strong partnerships are helping it successfully handle change when faced with the addition of a new elementary school and citywide redistricting of students. To meet the challenge, the Active Living Department partnered not only with the SRTS school champions, but met and planned with the school system and city police, public works and engineering departments to come up with new recommended safe routes.

The Omaha Story
Julie Harris, Active Omaha, Nebraska

Hear how SRTS efforts in Omaha have come a long way since Activate Omaha organized a couple of walking school busses in 2005. Learn how innovative community partnerships, grant opportunities and thinking outside of the box have allowed Omaha to take SRTS to the next level, including implementation of neighborhood "active routes to school" signage and mapping.

Using Social Media to Engage Youth
Lynn Cooper, Socially Ahead, Maryland

Explore how social media has and can be used to effectively engage youth in keeping themselves and others safe. See how online technology can be used to report conditions, incidents and notifications to interested parties and discover resources available to assist in establishing a social media campaign.

Green Technologies for SRTS Greenways
Blake Theisen, SAA Design Group, Wisconsin
Reed Dunbar, SAA Design Group, Wisconsin

Learn emerging trail corridor design and construction methods and new technologies for developing trails sustainably.


Community Trail Development: Building a Backdoor to Coatimundi Middle School
Sarah Prasek, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Darcy Dixon, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, Santa Cruz County, Arizona

Hear how the Santa Cruz County SRTS Program creatively developed safe pedestrian access to a school site via a trail built entirely with volunteer labor and partner donations.

Complete Streets and Safe Routes to School
Charles Rickart, WSB & Associates Inc., Minnesota
Wayne Houle, City of Edina, Minnesota
Andy Brotzler, City of Rosemount, Minnesota

Walk through the process used by two different Minnesota communities as they worked to implement Complete Streets approaches when reconstructing streets with elementary schools.


Wayfinding Signage: Building Connections to Schools and Other Community Destinations
Charlie Quigg, Olmsted County Public Health Services, Rochester, Minnesota

Learn about the various components involved in a wayfinding signage project designed to encourage people to use a city’s vast trail network to get to a purposeful destination.

Walk More in Four: Starting the School Year on the Right Foot
Cherissa Wood, Utah Dept. of Transportation, Utah
Bethany Hyatt, Intrepid

Discover ideas, tips, lessons learned and successes from the Utah Safe Routes to School’s annual “Walk More in Four,” a state-wide walking/biking challenge leading up to International Walk to School Day. Come learn the foundational elements of executing a creative and fun back-to-school walking challenge that will get your students in the healthy habit of walking safely to school the entire year.


Building A Kidical Mass: Creating Family-Friendly Encouragement Events
Shane MacRhodes, Eugene 4J School District SRTS Program, Oregon

Get inspired to connect families with safe and fun cycling in your community through local family friendly events like Kidical Mass rides, parades, bike trains, and other encouragement events.  When families come together to overcome barriers, share their stories, and ride as a group they get the support they need to try biking more often for more trips. Get marketing material, tips, tricks, and share ideas in this interactive session.

Measuring Active Transport at Schools - A New Method Validated by the Texas Childhood Obesity Prevention Policy Evaluation (T-COPPE) Project
Heather Atteberry, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, University of Texas School of Public Health, Texas
Deanna Hoelscher, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, University of Texas, School of Public Health, Texas
Carolyn Smith, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, University of Texas School of Public Health, Texas

Discover a new time-saving method for collecting student travel tallies that still provides reliable and accurate evaluation data.


The Active School Neighborhood Checklist: An Online Tool To Predict Student Physical Activity and Health as Determined by School Neighborhoods
Brian Fellows, Arizona Dept. of Transportation, Arizona
Elise Bremer-Nei, New Jersey Dept. of Transportation, New Jersey

Learn how the easy-to-use Active School Neighborhood Checklist can help you determine optimal school sites or provide data to help improve existing sites.

Barbara McCann, National Complete Streets Coalition, Washington, D.C.
Ian Thomas, PedNet Coalition, Inc., Missouri

Discover how Complete Streets policies can be the natural next step for SRTS and hear how two communities used their SRTS success to begin a Complete Streets policy campaign.

Getting the Most Out of Your Walking Audits
Bruce Barcelo, Public Health Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio

Discover how to conduct a successful walking audit, and how to use the data collected to increase SRTS participation and engage law enforcement.


Engaging Law Enforcement in Safe Routes to School: An Innovative Training Approach is the Key
Peter Flucke, WE BIKE, etc., Wisconsin

Gain insights into the reality of how law enforcement culture and training needs decrease their ability to engage with SRTS, and how innovative, multi-faceted training can bridge this gap.

Seth LaJeunesse, National Center for Safe Routes to School, North Carolina
Austin Brown, National Center for Safe Routes to School, North Carolina

Learn how to successfully craft SRTS-based stories that motivate — and how to enhance those stories with SRTS data.

Walking School Bus: Creating Engagement Everywhere!
Heidi Skildum, Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative, Iowa

Get inspired and learn best practices from rural Decorah, Iowa’s successful walking school bus program that doubles as an engagement tool.


Beyond Dodgeball: Bringing SRTS to the Middle School Gymnasium
Jen Cole, Feet First, Washington
Charlotte Claybrooke, Washington State Department of Transportation, Washington
Seth Schromen-Wawrin, Bicycle Alliance of Washington, Washington to the Dodgeball presentation

Learn how SRTS leaders developed a new pedestrian and bicycle safety curriculum for middle school physical education classes in 25 Washington State school districts.

Juan Antonio Ramirez, Walk San Diego, San Diego, California
Brian Dougherty, Seattle Department of Transportation, Oregon
Joseph Cutrufo, Walk Boston, Massachusetts

Gain a new perspective on sources for funding non-infrastructure SRTS projects through examples from San Diego, Boston and Seattle.

Mix it up to:

Identify creative solutions … discover proven techniques and strategies … learn to work with a Regional Development Commission … see how incrementalism can work … reach out to tribal nations

Overcoming the Challenges of Rurality
Nykia Burke, Georgia Safe Routes to School Resource Center, Georgia
Julio Portillo, Bicycle and Pedestrian Planner for the River Valley Regional Commission, Georgia

Discover how, with 40 of 46 counties identified as rural (population of 35,000 or less) in the SRTS-South Georgia Territory, SRTS Outreach overcame a multitude of challenges when introducing its program. A partnership with the River Valley Regional Commission proved both efficient and effective at reaching the larger regional community and successfully developing multiple model SRTS programs.

Rural Areas Can Make SRTS Work
Christine Fischer, The Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado

Hear why rural didn’t mean impossible in Calhan, Colorado. Discover several proven tactical implementation ideas, funding leverage ideas and creative engagement ideas to help overcome the obstacles of finding infrastructure funding for rural areas and engaging students, parents and administrators.

Safe Routes to School Rural Initiatives in Northeast Minnesota
Ellen Pillsbury, Arrowhead Regional Development Commission, Minnesota
Bonnie Hundrieser, ARDC, Minnesota

Explore best practices of rural SRTS planning and gain insights into how to work with a Regional Development Commission from the perspective of the seven-county Arrowhead Regional Development Commission (ARDC) in northeast Minnesota, For the past five years, the ARDC has led the SRTS effort by providing leadership to communities, assisting them in applying for funds, developing local SRTS committees and facilitating development of SRTS programs.

2 Little, 2 Few, 2 Far, 2 Dangerous: Getting 2 Effective in Rural Humboldt County, California
Melanie Williams, BikesThere, Northern California

Hear how Humboldt County in Northern California faced a web of what could’ve seemed insurmountable challenges, but found that incrementalism can and does work. With vision and seed money, SR2S has grown from isolated, episodic efforts to successful competition for state and federal grants, the formation of a taskforce, and increased participation and support for walking and biking safely to school.

Unique SRTS Challenges and Solutions: Lac Courte Oreilles Nation
Blake Theisen, SAA Design Group, Madison, Wisconsin

Learn about the unique geographical, societal and Ojibwe cultural challenges involved in establishing a SRTS program in the Lac Courte Oreilles Nation in rural northern Wisconsin. The SRTS program focuses on campus-based training and education opportunities in lieu of typical neighborhood-based programs. The vision is that as children learn to walk and bicycle safely, they will demand biking and walking facilities in new developments and carry forward a desire to use non-motorized means as part of their regular transportation regimen.