Safe Routes to School: Making Transportation Choices Integral to Community Life in North Vancouver

摘要

The District of North Vancouver (DNV) and North Vancouver School District (NVSD) recentlyjointly conducted a school safety review and developed a Safe Routes to School plan for threeelementary schools. The purpose of this study was:1.to identify transportation issues and opportunities around each school;2.to develop recommendations to improve the safety and access to each school; and3.to promote healthy and active modes of transportation to school such as walking andcycling.This paper describes the methods and results of the school safety study, including the results ofan on-line parent survey regarding travel patterns and key transportation issues, as well asrecommendations for engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement, and evaluationmeasures to improve safety and promote walking and cycling to school.The school traffic and safety studies have provided an effective process for the DNV, NVSD,school administration and parents to work together to improve safety and promote increasedwalking and cycling to schools.As a result of the success of the partnership between the NVSD and the DNV in tackling someof the more complex school traffic conditions in the DNV, the two organizations intend tocontinue to work closely to promote safe routes to schools in the District of North Vancouver.