School Travel Planning Manual

Introduction

Overview

The School Travel Planning Manual is designed to provide an overview of how schools can better support families to use active modes of transportation when travelling to and from school each day. The current School Travel Planning Manual consists of the following sections.

Phase 1: School Profile

Phase 1

Principal / Vice Principal registers to access School Travel Planning Portal on activesaferoutes.ca.

School Travel Planning Registration

Introduction email sent from ELMO ASRTS Chairs to welcome them to STP, instruction for next steps, and to  provide login information to complete school assessment.

Principal will be asked to complete School Profile with School Council, which includes (1) School Profile, (2) AST School Strengths, & (3) AST Concerns.

School Travel Planning School Profile

Phase 2: Create Action Plan

Phase 2

Created based on the AST issues identified in the School Assessment. Schools will receive an associated set of solutions of varying complexity to address each identified issue.

School

Education & encouragement not requiring external resources. In-school curriculum connected activities to increase AST.

School Community

Education & encouragement activities requiring external resources or engineering solutions addressing specific issues on school property.

Neighbourhood Community

Complex solutions focused on engineering, enforcement, & evaluation (or multiple E’s). Deals with more significant concerns & require many external partners to complete.

Phase 3: Implement Action Plan

Phase 3

ASRTS partners will hold a meeting with each school that completes Phase 2 to review the Action Plan, help prioritize solutions, & determine school capacity.

Schools with greater need and Schools with Neighbourhood Community Solutions will be offered more support from ASRTS partners.

Action Plan items are selected and implemented, with feedback and notes provided to ASRTS through the committee website.

A new School profile can be completed annually to assess progress and to get new ideas for implementation.

Interested schools should contact the committee co-chairs.