pacific nw transportation consortium region 10 Pactrans

Economic and Health Metrics of Active School Travel: A Practical Tool or Transportation Planners and Educators

PI: Anne Vernez Moudon (UW), moudon@uw.edu, ORCID: 0000-0001-8485-4799

Co PIs: Xiao Shi

AMOUNT & MATCH: $40,000 from PacTrans; $40,000 Match

PERFORMANCE PERIOD: 8/16/2020 – 8/15/2022

STATUS: Active

CATEGORIES: Safety, Public Health, Pedestrian, Safe Routes to School

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FINAL PROJECT REPORT: will be available once completed

PROJECT DATA: will be available once completed

DESCRIPTION: The Children Walking To Health Tool builds on the recently developed Washington School Walk Score (W*2), which estimates the school-level rates of AST for more than 1,300 K-8 schools in Washington State. Input data will be the WS*2-derived percent of children in each school who are expected to use AST, while output data will be estimates of the corresponding health and economic outcomes. Used interactively, CW2H will serve to test different scenarios and examine the impact of changes in WS*2.

Obtaining the health and economic metrics will consist of “translating” rates of AST into expected health and economic outcomes. This translation will come from meta-analyses using the results of previous studies that have correlated active travel or physical activity with health outcomes and health care cost savings.