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Title:

Modeling Children's School Travel Mode and Parental Escort Decisions

Accession Number:

01047500

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

An understanding of the activity-travel patterns of children is becoming increasingly important to various policy makers. Further, there is also a growing recognition that intra-household interactions need to be explicitly accommodated in travel models for realistic forecasts and policy evaluation. In the light of these issues, 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 determine the choice of modes along with the escorting person simultaneously for travel to and from school. The 2000 San Francisco Bay Area Travel Survey (BATS) data are used in the model estimation process. Empirical results indicate that the characteristics of child like age, gender, and ethnicity, and employment and work flexibility characteristics of the parents have strong impacts on the mode choice decisions. In addition, 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. Several land-use and built-environment variables were explored, but were found not to be statistically significant predictors.

Monograph Accession #:

01042056

Report/Paper Numbers:

07-2995

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Yarlagadda, Amith Kumar
Srinivasan, Sivaramakrishnan

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2007

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

CD-ROM

Features:

References (21) ; Tables (5)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Walk to school

Geographic Terms:

San Francisco Bay Area

Subject Areas:

Highways; Passenger Transportation; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2007 Paper #07-2995

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2007 7:43PM