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2015 Spring | Arts & Humanities, Environmental Justice

Making Streets Safer for Kids who Actively Commute to School: Motorist Compliance Rates & Socio-Economic Differences

Student(s):

Ranju Uezono

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Gordon Padelford

Partner(s):

  • Seattle Neighborhood Greenways

Faculty advisor(s):

Megan Horst, Program on the Environment, University of Washington

During my project I set up and conducted a motorist compliance rate study at three selected crosswalks near schools in Seattle, selected by Seattle Neighborhood Green- ways (SNG). My capstone colleague Qiren and I created a data collection sheet, observed and collected on-site data, and created a final report of our findings. The study was modeled after a national report done in 2006 titled TCRP112/NCHRP 562. In addition, I conducted a scholarly literature review on the demographic of children who actively commute. The current general consensus is that children from lower socio-economic and minority house- holds actively commute to school the most.