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Date
10-25-2024
Description
Bike Buses are a relatively new form of Active Transportation to School (ATS) that have gained popularity in Europe and the United States in recent years. Generally, a bike bus consists of one or more adult supervisors, often parents, who guide a group of students along a defined ‘route’ to one or more schools. Using literature from the last 15 years published on ATS in North America, we identify four thematic areas of influence on Bike Buses: school policies, parent and student attitudes and behaviors, the urban environment, and the street environment. We conclude that Bike Buses can be situated within the larger body of literature about ATS and Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS) but deserve research on their own merits for a variety of reasons. The presentation will also present findings from surveys of bike bus coordinators and parents at schools with bike buses in Portland, Oregon.
Disciplines
Transportation | Urban Studies and Planning
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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/43464
Recommended Citation
Howington, Evan; MacArthur, John H.; and McNeil, Nathan W., "Bike Buses: An Evaluation of An Emerging Active Transportation to School Intervention" (2024). PSU Transportation Seminars. 260.
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/43464