WHY DO PARENTS DRIVE THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL?

This paper reports on an investigation to determine the current modal split for the school journey and to investigate what factors influence parents to take their children by car as opposed to allowing them to catch the bus, walk or cycle. A survey, in the form of self- completion questionnaires, was administered through four schools in the north-western suburbs of Leeds in July 1993. The use of cars for the journey to school is encouraged not only by car availability and convenience, but also by a number of other factors. Briefly, the main factors discussed here, which influence whether or not parents choose to drive their children to school are: (i) concerns about road safety; (ii) concerns about personal safety of children; (iii) parental choice of school; (iv) the possibility of linking the school journey with the journey to work may influence whether children travel to school by car; (v) the length of the journey; and (vi) peer-group pressure as increasingly, children expect to be driven to school.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Printerhall Limited

  29 Newmart Street
  London W1P 3PE,   England 
• Authors:
  • BRADSHAW, R
• Publication Date: 1995-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 16-9
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 36
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Children; Hazards; Interviewing; Mobility; Perception; Risk assessment; Safety; Schools; Sociology
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 1757: Age; 2267: Attitude (psychol); 1272: Bus; 1758: Child; 1667: Crossing the road; 1742: Cyclist; 2284: Education; 9147: Interview; 698: Journey; 621: Journey to work; 9105: Mobility (pers); 675: Modal split; 8786: Passenger information; 2229: Perception; 744: Public transport; 9150: Risk; 1665: Safety; 101: School; 2253: Sociology; 671: Traffic flow; 633: Traffic restraint; 8119: United Kingdom; 758: Walking; 2545: Weather
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00675158
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 28 1995 12:00AM