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Title:

Factors Affecting Use of Child Car Seats for Nursery School Travel: A Study in Athens, Greece
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Accession Number:

01590702

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Children vulnerability as car occupants is subject to their age and physical development. The aim of this research is to identify the factors affecting the use of Child Car Seats, particularly Child Restraint Systems (CRS) or booster seats for the commute to nursery school. The study is piloted in three suburbs of Athens, Greece, with distinct differences in socioeconomic status (SES) and built environment characteristics. A self-administered parental questionnaire, exploring the traffic safety practices for preschool children as well as the child-parent interaction and the parent’s risk perception, behavior and knowledge of traffic safety, was completed for 734 children attending municipality nursery schools. Responses revealed that children irrespective of the area of residence travel to the nursery school mainly as car occupants. The level of use of Child Car Seats is quite low. Regression analysis showed that socioeconomic status (SES) of the family as well as the area of residence, family travel patterns, family structure, traffic safety climate, particularly parent’s perceptions towards traffic safety and the use of driver seat belt, as well as child’s age and gender, affect the use of Child Car Seats for this commute. Transportation network infrastructure is also affecting the use of Child Car Seats. Conclusions are drawn and extensions to this work are explicitly discussed, along with suggestions to overcome the limitations and complete this research with on-going and future data collection and analyses.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB45 Standing Committee on Occupant Protection.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-4975

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Armouti, Ioanna

ORCID 0000-0002-5604-1894

Antoniou, Constantinos

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (31) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Athens (Greece)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I70: Traffic and Transport; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-4975

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 6:10PM