COAST
Here are a few things I've created for the Coalition for Sustainable Transportation (COAST) and its Safe Routes To School program...
- Walk & Roll program support
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Walk & Roll programs encourage walking and biking to school on a regular basis, monthly or even weekly. A program may be organized as a competition, with classrooms competing to see which can achieve the highest participation rate. Here's an online tool to support competitions specifically and program tracking generally:
COAST Walk & Roll Performance Tracking
In a new use case still being developed, this tool has been used to record an inter-school, city-wide competition with over 1,000 children participating. The results were encouraging, with the top classrooms achieving almost 100% participation:
- Studies
- School walking guides
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These maps show suggested walking routes to school, walking paths, and walking time isochrons (lines of constant walking time). The idea is to encourage walking by showing it to be possible and even easy.
- Walkability maps
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Walk Score returns a "walkability score" between 0 (cars only) and 100 (walkers' paradise) for a given address. Although its algorithm is a little simplistic (it doesn't take into account presence of sidewalks, for example), its results, in aggregate, seem intuitively good. As evidence of this, below is a walkability map for Santa Barbara. Hat tip to Lee Byron for the idea.
last modified 2016-01-30 20:36