BACKGROUND: Walking to school may be an important source of daily physical activity in
children's lives, and government agencies are supporting programs to encourage walking to …

BACKGROUND: Rising rates of overweight children have focused attention on walking and
biking to school as a means to increase children's physical activity levels. Despite this …

Active commuting (non-motorized transport) to school can be an important source of
physical activity for children and adolescents. This research examined sociodemographic …

BACKGROUND: Active travel to school provides youth with an opportunity to accumulate
minutes of physical activity toward meeting recommended levels. METHODS: The study …

BACKGROUND: The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity has set a goal of
increasing walking and biking to school by 50% within 5 years. Meeting the goal requires a …

Active transportation to school (ATS), denoting walking and biking, is crucial to promote
physical activity for youth. This study uses data from the 2017 National Household Travel …

Increasing the rates that our adolescents walk and bicycle to school, also called active
transport to school (ATS), could increase the physical activity (PA) levels of that age group …

Background Promoting daily routine physical activities, such as active travel to school, may
have important health implications. Practitioners and policy makers must understand the …

BACKGROUND: The journey to school is an opportunity for increasing children's daily
physical activity. However, the contribution that active commuting to school makes to overall …

OBJECTIVE.: The purposes of this study were to describe the prevalence of modes of
transportation to school and to identify socioeconomic correlates. METHODS.: Proportions of …