What is Active School Travel?
Active travel is any form of human-powered (non-motorized) transportation such as walking, biking, scootering, skateboarding, and using a wheelchair. Sustainable school transportation emphasizes the importance of incorporating active travel with sustainable transportation modes, such as riding the school bus.
Walking or wheeling to school has a variety of benefits that directly affect students including improved physical health and mental well-being, sense of neighbourhood connectedness, cleaner and safer school zones and environments, and improved academic success.