Modeling Children’s School Travel Mode and Parental Escort Decisions

This paper contributes towards an overall understanding of the school-travel behavior of children and the related interdependencies among the travel patterns of parents and children. An econometric model is formulated to simultaneously determine the choice of mode and the escorting person for children’s travel to and from school. The model estimation process uses data from the 2000 San Francisco Bay Area Travel Survey. Empirical results indicate that the characteristics of child such as age, gender, and ethnicity have strong impacts on mode choice decisions, as do parental employment and work flexibility characteristics. The impacts of some of these attributes on the choice of mode to school are different from the corresponding impacts on the choice of mode from school. The distance between home and school is found to strongly and negatively impact the choice of walking to and from school, with the impact being stronger for walking to school. Land-use and built-environment variables were found not to be statistically significant predictors. Directions for future research are discussed.

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  • Accession Number: 01091316
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS, ATRI
  • Created Date: Apr 23 2008 9:21AM