Help us finalize the new School Area Safety Guide!
ODOT is excited to share the updated draft A Guide to School Area Safety and needs your input before creating the final version. The guide is designed to be a comprehensive resource to help make travel to and from school safer for students. The updated version reflects the most current laws, rules, and best practices for planning, engineering, programming, and design in school areas.
We want your feedback on the new version! Once you review the guide, please take a few minutes to complete our short survey to help us refine the final version.
What’s New in the Guide:
The update was shaped by feedback from users across the state and includes refreshed content, new tools, and direct links to other Safe Routes to School and traffic safety resources.
- Clearer, more accurate language, with updated photos and working links
- Expanded accessibility guidelines
- References to the ODOT Highway Design Manual
- Safety design standards, including elements of traffic engineering studies, school site circulation, and route planning
- Guidance on new traffic elements such as wayfinding and bike bus signs/markings
- Updated funding resources
- Integration of tools from the PBOT Traffic Design Manual and Eugene–Springfield Safe Routes to School program
The updated guide is designed to be both practical and easy to use, helping schools, planners, and communities create safer environments for students every day.
The survey will be open through Tuesday, September 16 and the feedback will be used to develop the final version for release later this fall. Take a few minutes to complete our survey and let us know how the guide can better support your work.