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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Physical Activity: Interventions to Increase Active Travel to School

About this resource:

Systematic review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: August 2018

Workgroups: Physical Activity Workgroup, Social Determinants of Health Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends interventions to increase active travel to school based on evidence that they increase walking among students and reduce risks for traffic-related injury. These interventions make it easier for children and adolescents to walk or bike to school by making routes to school safer or promoting safe walking behaviors. Active travel to school interventions must include 1 or more of the following: engineering, education, encouragement, and enforcement. 

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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Increase the proportion of adolescents who walk or bike to get places — PA‑11
Baseline only

Suggested Citation

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2018). Physical activity: Interventions to increase active travel to school. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/physical-activity-interventions-increase-active-travel-school