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Public transit users take 30 percent more steps and spend roughly eight more minutes walking each day than drivers.

Safe Routes to School Overview Factsheet Citations

 

Center for Disease Control, “Adolescent and School Health: Guidelines and Strategies”. Available online:http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/npao/schoolenvironment.htm; See also: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-trends/glo…

Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois Roadway Crash Data.

Garrett-Peltier, Heidi. “Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure: A National Study of Employment Impacts”. The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts. June 2011. Available online: http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/published_study/PERI_ABikes_Octo…

Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois Roadway Crash Data.

Center for Disease Control, “Adolescent and School Health: Guidelines and Strategies”. Available online:http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/npao/schoolenvironment.htm; See also: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-trends/glo…

Harvard School of Public Health, “Obesity Prevention Source: Obesity Consequences”. Available online:http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-consequenc… See also:http://www.cdc.gov/ healthyweight/effects/

Trust for America’s Health, “New Report: Illinois has the 25th Highest Adult Obesity Rate in Nation”, 2014. Available online: http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2014/?stateid=IL

Gordon-Larsen P, Nelson MC, Page P, Popkin BM. “Inequality in the Built Environment Underlies Key Health Disparities in Phyiscal Activity and Obesity.” Pediatrics, 117(2): 417-424, 2006.

Muenning, Peter,, et al. “The Cost-Effectiveness of New York City’s Safe Routes to School Program.” American Journal of Public Health 2014; 104 (7):1294-1299.

Illinois Report from the National Survey of Children’s Health.” NSCH 2011/2012. Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health website.

DiMaggio, Charles and Guohua Li, 'Effectiveness Of A Safe Routes To School Program In Preventing School-Aged Pedestrian Injury', Pediatrics 131: 2 (2013): 290-296.

Sibley, Benjamin and Jennifer L. Etnier. “The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Cognition in Children: A Meta-Analysis” Pediatric Exercise Science. 2003. 15, 243-256. Available online: https://peandhealth.wikispaces.com/file/view/Sibley+and+Etnier+2003.pdf

Garrett-Peltier, Heidi. “Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure.

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