By Foot, Bus or Car: Children's School Travel and School Choice Policy
By Foot, Bus or Car: Children's School Travel and School Choice Policy
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步行、公交车或汽车：儿童的学校交通和择校政策
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10.1068/a435
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2010
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K. Krizek
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作者：
E. Wilson;J. Marshall;Ryan D. Wilson;K. Krizek
美国的许多学区允许家长选择孩子就读的学校（“学校选择”或“磁铁学校”），而其他学区则要求学生就读最近的学校（“社区”）。这些政策影响儿童的交通。我们调查小学家长在圣保罗和罗斯维尔，明尼苏达州，以发现孩子如何前往学校和潜在的因素影响父母的选择他们的孩子的旅行方式。从这些信息中，我们开发了一个统计模型的出行方式选择。我们发现，儿童的通勤模式和家长的择校态度不同的学校类型（磁铁与邻里），收入和种族。相对于社区学校，磁铁学校来自更广泛的地理区域，步行，骑自行车和汽车通勤的比例较低，而公交车比例较高。家长对交通的态度也因种族和学校类型而异。例如，非白人和磁铁学校学生的父母对公共汽车服务和质量的重视程度高于平均水平。本文强调了学区政策对学校通勤模式可能产生的意外影响。
Many school districts in the United States allow parents to choose which school their child attends ('school choice’ or ‘magnet schools’) while other school districts require students to attend their nearest (‘neighborhood’) school. Such policies influence children's transportation. We survey elementary-school parents in St. Paul and Roseville, Minnesota, to discover how children travel to school and underlying factors influencing parent's choice of their child's travel mode. From this information we develop a statistical model of travel mode choice. We find that children's commute mode and parental attitudes towards school selection differ by school type (magnet versus neighborhood), income, and race. Relative to neighborhood schools, magnet schools draw from broader geographic regions, have lower rates of walking, bicycling, and commuting by automobile, and higher busing rates. Parent attitudes towards transportation also differ by race and school type. For example, parents of nonwhite and magnet school students placed greater-than-average importance on bus service and quality. This paper highlights the potentially unintended influence of school district policy on school commute mode.