Student Travel Planning Solutions

School Travel Planning Committees work together to identify barriers to active school travel, and to create action plans to address those barriers. Here are some of the solutions that schools in the Waterloo region have accomplished.

Some concepts noted here have worked for more than one school and so are linked to Standard Operating Procedures intended to lend more information for consideration as committees form their action plans.

Focus: Consultation

STP Action	Supporting Students	Supporting Parents	Supporting School	Supporting Community
Initial Assessment			x
Parking Lot Assessment			x
STP Committee Meetings	x	x	x	x
Walkabout	x	x	x	x

Focus: Education

STP Action	Supporting Students	Supporting Parents	Supporting Community
Bike Rodeo	x
Cycling Education	x
Letters/ Council Delegation		x
Poster Challenge	x
Road Safety Assembly	x
School Presentation	x	x
STP Booth	x	x
Sidewalk Smarts	x
Student Inquiry Project	x	x
Traffic Flow Map		x
Traffic Video	x	x
Trailblazers	x		x
Walking Clinic	x

Focus: Encouragement

STP Action	Supporting Students	Supporting Parents	Supporting School	Supporting Community
Active Transportation Celebration Event	x		x	x
Bike Bus	x	x
Carpool – Staff or Student		x	x
Drive to 5		x
Greening Tree	x		x
Kindergarten Coaching	x	x
Kindergarten Orientation	x	x	x
Letters to Parents		x
Monthly Parent Communications		x
Sidewalk Paint/ Wayfinding	x	x	x	x
Walking Buddy System	x	x
Walking School Bus	x	x
Walking Wednesday	x	x
Weekly Announcements	x		x
Winter Clearance Thank You				x

Focus: Reinforcement

STP Action	Supporting Students	Supporting Parents	Supporting School	Supporting Community
Anti-idling campaign		x
Administrator Parking Lot Supervision		x
CAA Standard Foot Patrol	x		x	x
Driving tips pamphlet		x
Parking lot Attendants	x	x
Parking Blitz		x
Police or Bylaw Collaboration		x		x

Focus: Engineering

STP Action	Supporting Students	Supporting Parents	Supporting School	Supporting Community
Access point improvement			x
Neighbourhood Matching Grant				x
Request infrastructure improvement				x
Parking signage		x	x	x
Bike or Scooter Storage Rack	x		x
Temporary Tactical Urbanism project		x		x