Study: Fewer Pedestrian Injuries in Schools with SRTS programs

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SRTS data — These graphs show the difference in pedestrian injury rates at schools with SRTS programs (left) compared to those without (right). (Source: http://bit.ly/1luN7dB)

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs may help prevent pedestrian injuries according to a 2013 study published in Pediatrics which examined motor vehicle crash data from 2001-2010.

The study looked at geocoded motor vehicle crash data for 168,806 pedestrians in New York City and found that pedestrian injury rates during school-travel hours for schools with Safe Routes to School interventions were almost half (4.4 per 10,000) that of schools without SRTS programs (8.0 per 10,000).

Learn more about this study from the University of Wisconsin’s State Smart Transportation Initiative here.