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      <title>Health and Activity Impacts of Student Commute Modes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Active school transportation can profoundly influence children’s health, safety, and wellbeing. This project will investigate how different school commute modes – walking, bicycling, school bus, or private car – affect student physical activity and health, exposure to traffic-related air pollutants, safety, and travel disparity. Focusing on Texas school districts that currently or historically participate in Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs, we will combine new data collection with existing evidence to evaluate the benefits and challenges of various commute modes. The study will also examine how shifting school trips to active modes may reduce traffic-related air pollution near schools and improve air quality. We will conduct surveys to quantify students’ physical activity during commutes, assess their exposure to air pollution, and gauge perceptions of safety. Recent literature (2015–2025) will be synthesized to identify how school transportation choices affect student health (e.g. obesity, respiratory health, mental wellbeing) and safety outcomes, including disparities by socioeconomic status and geography. By evaluating SRTS interventions’ effectiveness in Texas communities, the project will fill critical gaps in understanding the multi-faceted impacts of commute mode on student wellbeing. Expected outcomes include practical recommendations for school districts and transportation agencies to design safer, healthier school travel environments. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:25:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Engaging Community Partners and Youth to Enhance and Sustain Safe Routes to School</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Studies have shown that Safe Routes to School projects and programs increase the number of children who walk and bike to school. By building pedestrian skills at a young age, students are more likely to choose active transportation modes across their lifespan, therefore decreasing vehicle miles traveled, reducing vehicle emissions, and preventing chronic disease and improving physical health overall. The Safe Routes to School Program will provide critical support for organizing and implementing pedestrian safety education and encouragement activities.  These activities are critical for developing skills to walk and bike safely among one of our community’s most vulnerable road users, children.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:21:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Advanced Mobility Innovation Lab</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This project will develop an Advanced Mobility Innovation Lab (AMIL) program to reach underserved K-12 students in rural and urban core areas of the southeast. These portable Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) labs will fuse transportation technology demonstrations with project-based STEM activities to educate students regarding the STEM principles used to develop such systems. Phase 1 of the project will include identifying/inventorying transportation technologies suited for demonstrations to youth, an inventory of transportation learning activities, the development of a plan for an operational AMIL program, and the creation of a Beta version of a lab. Phase 2 will begin the implementation of the plan for a fully functional lab with a program offered primarily in East Tennessee. This phase will include a task for identifying additional funding from sources needed for ongoing operation beyond the Center for Regional and Rural Connected Communities (CR2C2) program. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 17:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>An Equity-Driven Approach to School Zone Safety to Inform Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Programs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Even as the trends in traffic fatalities for motorists have been improving, vulnerable road users (VRUs, specifically pedestrians and bicyclists) have seen an alarming rise in fatalities in recent years. According to the Center for Disease Control, injuries from road traffic crashes are a leading cause of death for children under the age of 10, hence a critical public health issue. School-age pedestrians in lower-income neighborhoods may be particularly at risk. The proposed research takes a data-driven safe systems approach inspired by Vision Zero (VZ) policy goals. The data-driven approach will be used to develop engineering and educational safety countermeasures for areas near elementary schools serving disadvantaged populations in major metropolitan areas of FL, TX, and CA (three largest states with Center for Transportation, Equity, Decisions and Dollars (CTEDD) consortium partners). The PIs will work closely with the stakeholders to incorporate engineering countermeasures into Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs. Potentially effective education-related activities will be evaluated using Virtual Reality-based (VR-based) pilot testing on elementary school children from schools serving low-income neighborhoods in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. PIs have a long history of working collaboratively with stakeholders, including MPOs, state DOTs, school administrators, and community groups engaged with SRTS programs. The stakeholder engagement plan documented in the proposal will ensure successful tech transfer towards more effective SRTS programs.  ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:10:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>K-12 Workforce Development/Outreach,The Citadel (YR3)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The objectives of this project are to: (1) coordinate, organize and conduct a 1-week Summer Camp on multimodal mobility, connected vehicles and congestion mitigation for targeted population of 15-20 student cohorts; (2) host Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, an event for 80 Girl Scouts each year to learn about engineering through an engaging 3-hour program including interaction with college student mentors, and resulting in participants earning a Girl Scout Engineering Badge; and (3) host STEM Outreach and Events, including hosting bridge breaking competitions, conducting student workshops, hosting special student groups on campus, engaging college students in outreach activities.  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:15:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>K-12 Workforce Development/Outreach, The Citadel (YR2)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The objectives of this project are to: (1) Host a 1-week long STEM Camp focusing on transportation and congestion reduction themes, engaging students and additional mobility oriented educational threads connecting with research and educational activities. (2) Continue with previous K-12 initiatives focusing on K-12 outreach for Charleston Lowcountry region, specifically focusing on student engagement with transportation engineering issues. Implementation of this outreach program is anticipated to engage approximately 1,000 students.  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:09:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Each year, the Citadel department of civil and environmental engineering coordinates with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Lowcountry Branch, the Girls Scouts of Eastern South Carolina, the Lowcountry STEM collaborative, and local elementary schools to excite K-12 students about engineering. This project will focus on incorporating hands-on activities and educational material to introduce kids to transportation engineering at three major events: “Introduce a girl to engineering”; “STEM festival”, and “Leadership Day at Spann Elementary”. Overall, those three event will reach out to and inform more than 1000 kids about the world of transportation engineering through hands-on activities. Such events make kids view transportation engineering as a possible future career.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:08:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>K-12 Workforce Development Outreach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (YR3)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To strengthen and expand University of Alabama's (UAB’s) efforts to promote transportation engineering and STEM careers through K-12 educational programs the research team is proposing the following activities: (1) Auto-STRIDE curriculum development and implementation – A yearlong STEM activity for 20 students in the 7th through 10th grade, which will emphasize engineering in autonomous transportation systems (i.e. autonomous vehicles). (2) Girls in Science and Engineering Day - This event will target local middle school aged girls (6th to 8th grade) from the Birmingham area and will invite them to the UAB campus on a Saturday (8:30 am to 3:30 pm). The students will rotate through different fun science and engineering workshops led by UAB professors, scientists, or graduate students. The workshops would be scientifically-based, yet fun, engaging, and active for the girls. (3) UAB Kids in Engineering Day - The event targets 4th and 6th graders from schools across North-Central Alabama and will feature fun and educational activities involving different types of engineering and STEM activities. 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:05:46 GMT</pubDate>
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