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Association of the Safe Routes to School program with school-age pedestrian and bicyclist injury risk in Texas

Overview of attention for article published in Injury Epidemiology, July 2015
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Title
Association of the Safe Routes to School program with school-age pedestrian and bicyclist injury risk in Texas
Published in
Injury Epidemiology, July 2015
DOI 10.1186/s40621-015-0038-3
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Authors

Charles DiMaggio, Joanne Brady, Guohua Li

Abstract

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a federally funded transportation program for facilitating physically active commuting to and from school in children through improvements of the built environment, such as sidewalks, bicycle lanes, and safe crossings. Although it is evident that SRTS programs increase walking and bicycling in school-age children, their impact on pedestrian and bicyclist injury has not been adequately examined. We analyzed quarterly traffic crash data between January 2008 and June 2013 in Texas to assess the effect of the SRTS program implemented after 2009 on school-age pedestrian and bicyclist injuries. The annualized rates of pedestrian and bicyclist injuries between pre- and post-SRTS periods declined 42.5% (95% confidence interval (CI) 39.6% to 45.4%) in children aged 5 to 19 years and 33.0% (95% CI 30.5% to 35.5%) in adults aged 30 to 64 years. Negative binomial modeling revealed that SRTS intervention was associated with a 14% reduction in the school-age pedestrian and bicyclist injury incidence rate ratio (IRR 0.86, 95% CI 0.75 to 0.98). The effect of the SRTS intervention on pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities was similar though smaller in magnitude and was not statistically significant (adjusted IRR 0.90, 95% CI 0.67 to 1.21). These results indicate that the implementation of the SRTS program in Texas may have contributed to declines in school-age pedestrian and bicyclist injuries.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 37 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 19%
Student > Master 6 16%
Researcher 5 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Student > Postgraduate 2 5%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 9 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 9 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 14%
Engineering 4 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 8%
Psychology 2 5%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 9 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 October 2016.
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#7,490,851
of 22,896,955 outputs
Outputs from Injury Epidemiology
#192
of 325 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#89,099
of 263,493 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Injury Epidemiology
#6
of 7 outputs
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