Introduction

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs aim to promote children's active school commuting and to improve traffic safety around schools. Evaluation studies mostly have focused on travel modal shift to active modes. However, traffic safety improvement has been less studied, although it was one of the most important program goals and it could be equally important to policy makers and practitioners. We aim to evaluate whether schools participating in a SRTS program have safety improvement.

Methods

Using a two-group (case-control) pretest-posttest study design, we analyzed SRTS funding in 2008 and 2013 in New York State. Analysis of Covariance models were established to examine if SRTS funding was associated with changes in collision outcomes with adjusting school demographics, area-based socioeconomic characteristics, and built environments around schools. Collision outcomes were vehicle collision count and risk (count adjusted by traffic volume) around school before and after SRTS funding.

Results

In total, 2363 schools were examined. We found that the 2013 SRTS programs were not significantly associated with a decrease in collision involving school-age pedestrians or bicyclists occurring within a 0.5-mile distance from schools during school hours.

Conclusions

The 2013 SRTS funding was not associated with collision reduction, suggesting no evident effect of SRTS on collision reduction among school-age pedestrians and bicyclists.

中文翻译：

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在纽约州上学计划的安全路线与学龄的行人或骑自行车的人之间的碰撞没有关联

介绍

安全上学路线（SRTS）计划旨在促进儿童活跃的学校通勤，并改善学校周围的交通安全。评估研究主要集中在出行方式向主动方式的转变上。但是，尽管交通安全改善是最重要的计划目标之一，但对政策制定者和从业者同样重要，但对交通安全改善的研究却很少。我们旨在评估参加SRTS计划的学校是否在安全性方面有所提高。

方法

使用两组（病例对照）前测后测研究设计，我们分析了纽约州2008年和2013年的SRTS资金。建立协方差分析模型以检查SRTS资金是否与调整学校人口统计学，基于地区的社会经济特征以及学校周围环境的碰撞结果变化有关。碰撞结果是在SRTS资助前后，学校周围的车辆碰撞计数和风险（通过交通量调整的计数）。

结果

总共检查了2363所学校。我们发现，2013年的SRTS计划与上学时间在距学校0.5英里之内的学龄期行人或骑自行车的人发生碰撞的减少没有显着相关。

结论

2013年的SRTS资金与减少碰撞没有关联，这表明SRTS对学龄期行人和骑自行车的人减少碰撞没有明显影响。