Understanding school travel : how residential location choice and the built environment affect trips to school.

Details

• Creators:
  Yang, Yizhao ; Schlossberg, Marc ; Parker, Robert G. ; Johnson, Bethany
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Oregon
• Corporate Contributors:
  Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • School children
  • Students
  • School safety
  • Transportation safety
  • Pedestrian safety
  • Location
  • Land use School children--Transportation--Oregon
  • Choice of transportation--Oregon
  • School sites--Oregon
  • Land use, Urban--Oregon
• Publication/ Report Number:
  OTREC-RR-10-01
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Oregon
• Edition:
  Final report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium
• 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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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  08184
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18172/dot_18172_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.54 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:61dacc0bd98976b641470598972df82b631233862a286abe42fb3868a9e96f81b6e7ac994d238e98d3e3366a3e151ff0d69a2f42de572c7fd9906e0ea0a44c02