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Transportation Options

A considerable portion - as much as 25 percent by some estimates - of commute time automobile trips are due to transporting students to school.

The transportation options category is designed to help school staff, students and parents reduce or eliminate modes of transportation that pollute the air, negatively affect human health, and increase carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Schools and districts can reduce their impact on climate change by encouraging and facilitating alternative transportation such as walking, bicycling, riding the school bus and carpooling.

Schools and school districts may select transportation options as an optional category in the Green Schools Program. For information on how your school or district can expand and improve transportation options for students, parents and staff, review the ideas and tips listed in the transportation options criteria. There is one set of criteria for schools and another for school districts.

Criteria and Resources

Transportation Options - School Criteria (Microsoft Word document, 103 k)
Transportation Options - School District Criteria (Microsoft Word document, 105 k)
Transportation Options Resources

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