The Travel of Children in Perspective – Their Exposire to the Risk of Accident. Volume 1: Travel Behavior

The study of children in transport has been an area of relative neglect over the past decades. One of the reasons has been lack of information on their travel behavior. This paper seeks to redress this situation by examining the travel behavior of children, in particular the modes of travel which they are compared with their adult counterparts, It is shown that dominant mode of transport in terms of amount of travel and time spent traveling by children is car passenger.

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  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
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• Authors:
  • Ampt, Elizabeth
• Conference:
  • World Transport Research. Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Sydney , Australia
  • Date: 1995-7-16 to 1995-7-21
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 343-356
• Monograph Title: World Transport Research. Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Children; Crash analysis; Crash exposure; Crash rates; Crash risk forecasting; High risk drivers; Risk assessment; Traffic safety; Travel behavior; Travel patterns; Travel time
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01079862
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0080427707
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 25 2007 10:25AM