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As recently as 1969 about half the school aged children in the United States walked or bicycled to school. Today fewer than 15% of school children walk or bike to school and as much as 20-30% of morning traffic is generated by parents driving their children to school. Children are less active today and the majority of children living within a 1/2 mile of schools are driven in private vehicles. Obesity rates are on the rise and the cost of obesity...

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs can improve safety, not just for children, but for the entire community. Encouraging children to walk and bike to school more often reduces congestion and pollution around our schools and helps form community partnerships. It also provides opportunities for students, teachers, and parents to increase their physical activity and improve public health.

The Berenstain Bear cubs learn not to be overly friendly with strangers and give their rules for dealing with them.

Accidental releases of Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) can result in initially dense gas clouds that will typically contain a mixture of gases, aerosols and droplets which can be transported significant distances before lower hazard levels of HF concentration are reached. Containment fences, vapor barriers, and water-spray curtains have been proposed as a means to hold-up or delay cloud expansion, elevate the plume downwind of the barriers, enhance cloud dilution,...

The purpose of this review is to assess the effectiveness and consistency of Work zone safety and mobility (WZSM) policies and practices for design, construction, maintenance and operations. The WZSM Process Review Team assessed the effectiveness and work towards consistent implementation and better understanding of current policies and practices throughout CDOT. The focus of this WZSM Process Review is to improve the safety and efficiency of work...

This report contains data on the reliability and effectiveness of an animal detection system project along US Hwy 160 between Durango and Bayfield, Colorado. The system that was first installed was a Perimitrax® system from Senstar Corporation. In the fall of 2010 this system was replaced by an OmniTrax® system, manufactured by the same company, Senstar Corporation. The Perimitrax® system was also installed at a controlled access facility near...