ArticleInjury epidemiology2015
Association of the Safe Routes to School program with school-age pedestrian and bicyclist injury risk in Texas.
Article in Injury epidemiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effectiveness of road safety interventions: An evidence and gap map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Article
- Systematic Review of Active Travel to School Surveillance in the United States and Canada.Journal of healthy eating and active living · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of a Road Traffic Injury Prevention Intervention in Reducing Pedestrian Injuries, Barcelona, Spain, 2002-2019.American journal of public health · 2023Article
- Development and Validation of a Google Street View Pedestrian Safety Audit Tool.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2020Article
- National Safe Routes to School program and risk of school-age pedestrian and bicyclist injury.Annals of epidemiology · 2016Article
- Systems-Level Evaluation of Safe Routes to School Policies in El Paso, Texas: A Modeling Study on Health and Economic Outcomes.Family & community healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundSafe Routes to School (SRTS) is a federally funded transportation program for facilitating physically active commuting to and from school in children through improvements of the built environment, such as sidewalks, bicycle lanes, and safe crossings. Although it is evident that SRTS programs increase walking and bicycling in school-age children, their impact on pedestrian and bicyclist injury has not been adequately examined.
methodsWe analyzed quarterly traffic crash data between January 2008 and June 2013 in Texas to assess the effect of the SRTS program implemented after 2009 on school-age pedestrian and bicyclist injuries.
resultsThe annualized rates of pedestrian and bicyclist injuries between pre- and post-SRTS periods declined 42.5% (95% confidence interval (CI) 39.6% to 45.4%) in children aged 5 to 19 years and 33.0% (95% CI 30.5% to 35.5%) in adults aged 30 to 64 years. Negative binomial modeling revealed that SRTS intervention was associated with a 14% reduction in the school-age pedestrian and bicyclist injury incidence rate ratio (IRR 0.86, 95% CI 0.75 to 0.98). The effect of the SRTS intervention on pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities was similar though smaller in magnitude and was not statistically significant (adjusted IRR 0.90, 95% CI 0.67 to 1.21).
conclusionsThese results indicate that the implementation of the SRTS program in Texas may have contributed to declines in school-age pedestrian and bicyclist injuries.
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