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Diverse Communities
Diverse Communities Committee
The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) movement has been active in the United States since the 1990s. Thanks to the dedication and hard work of advocates and communities in several states, Safe Routes is now a dedicated Federal-Aid program, providing an unprecedented source of funding for projects and programs that encourage and enable safe walking and bicycling to school.
The traditional Safe Routes to School model uses the 5 "E’s"—engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation—to accomplish two main goals: increase the number of students who walk and bicycle to school, and make walking and bicycling to school safer. This widely accepted standard program has its developmental roots in largely suburban settings. However, many schools and communities experience a different set of circumstances related to active transportation that remain unaddressed in most of the widely available resources and guidance.
Diverse Communities Committee
The Safe Routes to School National Partnership (SRTSNP) has created the Diverse Communities Committee to study specific student and community groups that have experienced unmet needs and gaps in resources with regard to the Safe Routes to School movement.
The SRTSNP Diverse Communities Committee recommended an initial identification of three sub-groups:
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large urban school communities,
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rural school communities, and
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students with disabilities.
To learn more about these groups, the committee’s hosted national conversations on each of the three topics in January 2007. The committee also conducted a survey of practitioners, experts, and stakeholders in the three types of communities to assist in defining each group.
Click on a group to read the roundtable meeting notes:
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