ISU study uses iPhone GPS tools to assist 12 Iowa towns with their Safe Routes to School programs

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 09:00 in Mathematics & Economics

An Iowa State University-Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) study uses high-tech devices to encourage low-tech solutions to escalating childhood obesity rates in Iowa. This month the researchers are providing the 12 communities with the study results they'll need to achieve the goal: Create safe routes for children to walk and bike to school.

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