Community problems & solutions

Volume I summarizes the entire project, providing an overview of the other documents developed during this Federal Highway Administration sponsored project. These include:

Resource File: 

SchoolTrips_UrbanPlaySafety1975.pdf

"While it's easy to organize a bad rodeo, it's not as easy as many think to do it right, and effectively.

"This guide outlines a step-by-step approach to designing a successful bicycle rodeo in [the reader's] community. Parents, members of community service organizations and teachers were in my mind as [the author] wrote this: it's designed to help [the reader] show kids in local neighborhoods how to be safer on bikes.

This short document provides guidance on starting a bicycle rodeo, including things to think about during the planning stages, publicity, and fundraising.

For information about developing route maps for travel to school, take a look at the School Route Maps and the Tools to Create Them section in our Safe Routes to School Guide.

For a more general tool, you can also start with a walkability checklist.

This presentation provides information on organizing training on properly fitting bicycle helmets.

Children are children, not young adults. It's important to understand their limitations in understanding traffic. This brochure provides information on how to make children safer pedestrians and bicyclists.

This report details the research done by Pyramid Communications on Physical Activity and Nutrition Programs in schools during school hours and after hours. After compiling and analyzing the data, Pyramid Communications make recommendations and conclusions regarding the state of schools and ways to improve the health of all students.

This pamphlet helps answer various questions parents may have when trying to encourage children to wear bike helmets.

The manual covers the need for helmets, the components of a school helmet policy, four steps schools can take to improve safety, helmet standards, and more. The appendix includes a sample letters to parents, a bicycle safety agreement, a school helmet policy, and other materials.