Department of Transportation Services

School Traffic Survey

Education materials:

• Principal brochure – Introduction to SRTS and initiatives 

Here are a few ways you can promote SRTS at your school:

• Designate a Safe Routes to School Coordinator (either parent or staff) that can be the point of contact for parents 
• Have the SRTS Coordinator complete the School Traffic Survey annually
• Encourage parents to take the parent survey annually.
  • Draft verbiage to introduce the survey: 

    The City and County of Honolulu, Department of Transportation Services’ Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program aims to increase the number of children who safely walk and bike to school. By starting with the trip to school, the entire community becomes a safer place for everyone to walk and bike. We ask for your participation in completing the SRTS Parent Survey. This survey will take approximately 5 – 10 minutes. The results of the survey will help guide SRTS efforts at the school. Deadline to submit survey is (insert date).

• Collect data on a classroom level by having teachers do the student tally annually 
• Disseminate traffic education materials to parents
• Hold a traffic safety week at the school
• Keep an up-to-date Walking School Bus registry at the school (with PTO) for parents who are interested in participating
• Have an up-to-date SRTS Plan and School Traffic Control Plan
• Allow students who walk to school to be dismissed 5 minutes early from school or have extra recess time
• Create a friendly competiton as to which class has the most people who walk to school. Ideas for prizes include: trophy, healthy snack, extra recess time, raffle 
• Design a SRTS t-shirt
• Hold a Walking School Bus event
• Have SRTS information on the school website (ie: point of contact, SRTS plan)