| Title |
Critical Understanding of Safe Routes to School Program in the United States - Focused on Interventions in New York State |
| Keywords |
교통안전; 보행친화성; 학령기 아동; 보행 정책; 건강 도시; 해외사례 Traffic Safety; Walkability; School-age Children; Active Transportation Policy; Healthy City; International Case Study |
| Abstract |
To promote walking to school, a national policy called “Safe Routes to School (SRTS)” was initiated in the early 2000s in the U.S., the UK, Austrailia, and New Zealand. When the SRTS program was introduced to South Korea, its contexts and outcomes were not fully explained. The current study aimed to provide a critical understanding of SRTS through the analysis of its legal foundation and policy background and the study of the New York State cases. A literature review was conducted to understand how SRTS was introduced and understood in Korean academic and gray literature. This study found that (1) Korean literature mostly focused on cases from the U.S., without evaluating their safety outcomes; and that (2) it is not clear whether SRTS participation had an effect on the reduction of collision involving children. An in-depth SRTS case revealed that there were contradictions with the implemenation of SRTS program. SRTS cases can serve as a useful reference in developing similar policies in South Korea. |