Active school travel: An evaluation of the Canadian school travel planning intervention

Effects of Funding Allocation for Safe Routes to School Programs on Active Commuting to School and Related Behavioral, Knowledge, and Psychosocial Outcomes

“…Consistent with our findings, a recent systematic review found that most SRTS interventions that were evaluated were quasi-experimental and most reported a small effect size on ACS (Chillón, Evenson, Vaughn, & Ward, 2011) Another study with data from 53 schools participating in a School Travel Planning (STP) program showed no change in ACS after 1 year, although certain areas had localized success (Mammen et al, 2014).…”

Healthy Urban Environments for Children and Young People: A Systematic Review of Intervention Studies

“…2 year follow-up: 1028 (60.6%) children To describe the behavioural changes in children resulting from Shape Up Somerville (Folta et al, 2013) Student self-reported achievement of either moderate or vigorous physical activity guidelines (Chomitz V, et al 2012) 2 year follow-up: 454 parents of children (Folta et al, 2013 School Travel Plan programme following implementation of the School Travel Plan programme To evaluate the Canadian School Travel Planning intervention by examining changes in school travel mode and predictors of mode change (Mammen et al, 2014a) Quasi-experimental pre-post evaluation design without a comparison group (Mammen et al, 2014a) Proportion of students who changed to an Active Travel mode (Mammen et al 2014a) Baseline and 1 year follow-up: Children aged 6 to 14 years old (number not provided) (Mammen et al, 2014a) 53 schools that participated in the School Travel Plan programme Mammen et al (2014b) 1 year follow-up: 7827 of 24,893 (31.4%) families attending schools that implemented School Travel Plan programme (Mammen et al, 2014b) Proportion of parents who reported driving less (Mammen et al, 2014b) To evaluate the Canadian School Travel Planning intervention by examining child-, family-, and school-level characteristics (Mammen et al, 2014b) Quasi-experimental retrospective post-test assessment without a comparison group (Mammen et al, 2014b) McDonald et al …”

The Effectiveness of Healthy Community Approaches on Positive Health Outcomes in Canada and the United States

“…Another pilot study by Mendoza and colleagues employed a cluster randomized controlled trial to investigate the impact of a five week WSB intervention on rates of active commuting and physical activity levels [22]. Most studies employed multifaceted interventions that included education, traffic enforcement and engineering improvements however a few studies utilized only one strategy (commonly walking school bus) to influence active modes of school transportation [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Consistent with the goal of increasing rates of children's active transportation to and from school, most studies focused on reporting intermediary outcomes such as travel behavior and attitudes.…”

“…There were two studies that explored the effect of STP interventions on student active school travel [25,26]. Buliung and colleagues conducted the first pilot study of twelve schools across four Canadian provinces [25].…”

“…A larger study consisting of 106 public elementary schools was implemented in 2010 across nine Canadian provinces [26]. Data was only available for 53 schools.…”