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Pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions
BACKGROUND: School safety zones were created in 2017 under the City of Toronto’s Vision Zero Road Safety Plan. This pilot study examined the effect of built environment interventions on driver speeds, active school transportation (AST) and dangerous driving. METHODS: Interventions were implemented a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34462331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044299 |
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author | Rothman, Linda Ling, Rebecca Hagel, Brent E Macarthur, Colin Macpherson, Alison K Buliung, Ron Fuselli, Pamela Howard, Andrew William |
author_facet | Rothman, Linda Ling, Rebecca Hagel, Brent E Macarthur, Colin Macpherson, Alison K Buliung, Ron Fuselli, Pamela Howard, Andrew William |
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description | BACKGROUND: School safety zones were created in 2017 under the City of Toronto’s Vision Zero Road Safety Plan. This pilot study examined the effect of built environment interventions on driver speeds, active school transportation (AST) and dangerous driving. METHODS: Interventions were implemented at 34 schools and 45 matched controls (2017–2019). Drivers travelling over the speed limit of >30 km/hour and 85th percentile speeds were measured using pneumatic speed tubes at school frontages. Observers examined AST and dangerous driving at school arrival times. Repeated measures beta and multiple regression analyses were used to study the intervention effects. RESULTS: Most schools had posted speed limits of 40 km/hour (58%) or ≥50 km/hour (23%). A decrease in drivers travelling over the speed limit was observed at intervention schools post-intervention (from 44% to 40%; OR 0.79, 95% CI 0.66 to 0.96). Seventy-one per cent of drivers travelled >30 km/hour and the 85th percentile speed was 47 km/hour at intervention schools, with no change in either postintervention. There were no changes in speed metrics in the controls. AST increased by 5% (OR 1.22, 95% CI 0.97 to 1.54) at intervention schools. Reductions in dangerous driving were observed at all schools. CONCLUSIONS: Posted speed limits were >30 km/hour at most schools and high proportions of drivers were travelling above the speed limits. There were reductions in drivers exceeding the speed limit and in dangerous driving, and modest increased AST post intervention. Bolder interventions to slow traffic are required to effectively reduce speeding around schools, which may increase safe AST. |
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spelling | pubmed-91328492022-06-10 Pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions Rothman, Linda Ling, Rebecca Hagel, Brent E Macarthur, Colin Macpherson, Alison K Buliung, Ron Fuselli, Pamela Howard, Andrew William Inj Prev Original Research BACKGROUND: School safety zones were created in 2017 under the City of Toronto’s Vision Zero Road Safety Plan. This pilot study examined the effect of built environment interventions on driver speeds, active school transportation (AST) and dangerous driving. METHODS: Interventions were implemented at 34 schools and 45 matched controls (2017–2019). Drivers travelling over the speed limit of >30 km/hour and 85th percentile speeds were measured using pneumatic speed tubes at school frontages. Observers examined AST and dangerous driving at school arrival times. Repeated measures beta and multiple regression analyses were used to study the intervention effects. RESULTS: Most schools had posted speed limits of 40 km/hour (58%) or ≥50 km/hour (23%). A decrease in drivers travelling over the speed limit was observed at intervention schools post-intervention (from 44% to 40%; OR 0.79, 95% CI 0.66 to 0.96). Seventy-one per cent of drivers travelled >30 km/hour and the 85th percentile speed was 47 km/hour at intervention schools, with no change in either postintervention. There were no changes in speed metrics in the controls. AST increased by 5% (OR 1.22, 95% CI 0.97 to 1.54) at intervention schools. Reductions in dangerous driving were observed at all schools. CONCLUSIONS: Posted speed limits were >30 km/hour at most schools and high proportions of drivers were travelling above the speed limits. There were reductions in drivers exceeding the speed limit and in dangerous driving, and modest increased AST post intervention. Bolder interventions to slow traffic are required to effectively reduce speeding around schools, which may increase safe AST. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-06 2021-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9132849/ /pubmed/34462331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044299 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Research Rothman, Linda Ling, Rebecca Hagel, Brent E Macarthur, Colin Macpherson, Alison K Buliung, Ron Fuselli, Pamela Howard, Andrew William Pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions |
title | Pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions |
title_full | Pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions |
title_fullStr | Pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions |
title_full_unstemmed | Pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions |
title_short | Pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions |
title_sort | pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34462331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044299 |
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