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Understanding school travel : how residential location choice and the built environment affect trips to school.
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2010-01-01
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Abstract:This project investigates issues related to parents’ decisions about children’s school transportation. This has become an important area
of research due to the growing concerns that increased reliance on private automobile in school travel has led to adverse health impacts on
children and negative impacts on environment. This study examines school transportation in the context of where families live and how families
make decisions about school travel in the process of choosing their residence.
Using a middle-sized school district in Oregon State, we conducted a 5500-household survey and a number of interviews and focus
groups. The study shows that parents considered school transportation in their residential location process; their intention to allow their children to
walk or bike to school at this stage had significant impacts on later school travel behavior. While acknowledging school travel was not a priority
when choosing a residential location, parents with strong preference for children walking or biking to school used residential location process
consciously to live closer to school and in more walkable neighborhoods; but parents were also limited by housing opportunities around schools
and in the community.
This research suggests the needs for stronger coordination between community land us planning and school planning, and stronger
emphasis on changing parents’ attitudes toward children walking or biking to school in programs around safe routes to schools.
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