Exploring Changes in Children’s Trips to School over Time in the Montreal Region

Daily trips to school can offer many benefits to children, including an opportunity to engage in physical activity, spend time outdoors, and interact with peers without parental supervision. However, the rate of motorized trips for school age children has continued to rise over the past few decades. This has implications for local air quality and broader environmental concerns, as well as public health and safety issues. Several elements of policy and street design have been linked to this decline, including dispersed development patterns and school consolidations making distances impractical to walk or cycle. In addition, parental fears of traffic and crime may be leading many households to prefer to drop children off at school. This study, using four waves of the Montreal-region Origin-Destination survey examines the personal, household, and built-form determinants of active transport to school for children aged 5-16 between the years 1998 and 2013. Binary logistic regression identifies age of child, car use in the home, percentage of four-way intersections as having an impact on active transport to school. In addition, some of these effects are observed to increase in magnitude over time

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB10 Standing Committee on Transportation Safety Management. Alternate title: Exploring Changes in Children’s Trips to School over Time in Montreal, Canada, region
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Manaugh, Kevin
  • Pis, Elizabeth
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
• Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 15p
• Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Built environment; Households; Logistic regression analysis; Nonmotorized transportation; Origin and destination; School children; School trips
• Geographic Terms: Montreal (Canada)
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01623133
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 17-04672
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 24 2017 3:15PM