Safe Routes to School: Infrastructure Reviews for Washington D.C.

Safe Routes to School program data focuses on built environment reviews around schools to improve student transportation safety. The dataset likely contains information on infrastructure improvements like crosswalk upgrades, speed hump installations, and traffic pattern changes. It is provided by the District of Columbia government and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing school zones for safety investments based on built environment reviews.
• Mapping locations of traffic calming measures like speed humps and crosswalk upgrades.
• Analyzing the distribution of pick-up and drop-off zone improvements across a city.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly tied to a 2022 legislative act (Safe Streets for Students Amendment Act), providing a clear policy context.
• The description specifies concrete improvement types like signal changes and pavement markings, suggesting detailed feature recording.
• License is clearly stated as CC-BY-4.0, allowing for open reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description does not specify the exact number of schools or projects covered.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia government

Collection Method

Reviews of the built environment around schools conducted by the SRTS team.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-11 08:02:07.173816; freshness should be verified.

Geography

District of Columbia, Washington D.C.