Why Parents Drive Children to School: Implications for Safe Routes to School Programs
Why Parents Drive Children to School: Implications for Safe Routes to School Programs
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DOI：
10.1080/01944360902988794
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
5.6
通讯作者：
Alborg, Annette E.
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作者：
McDonald, Noreen C.;Alborg, Annette E.
问题：近几十年来，步行和骑自行车上学的比率急剧下降，联邦政府和州政府已投入资金扭转这一趋势。要提高步行和骑自行车上学的比率，就需要了解为什么许多家长选择开车送孩子上学，以及现有的“安全上学路线”等项目的效果如何。目的：我们旨在了解为什么许多家长选择开车送孩子上学，即使是很短的距离，以及这对增加步行和骑自行车上学的计划有什么影响。方法：我们使用电话调查的数据来探讨为什么家长开车送孩子上学。结果和结论：我们发现，75%的家长开车送孩子去不到2英里的学校，他们说这样做是为了方便和节省时间。在开车接送孩子不到2英里的父母中，近一半的人不允许孩子在没有成人监护的情况下步行上学。陪孩子步行上学大大增加了家庭在这趟旅行上的时间。很少有安全的上学路线项目有效地解决了家长的便利和时间限制问题。实践要点：安全上学路线项目应该考虑到家长的便利性和时间限制，提供孩子可以在家长以外的人监督下步行上学的方式，比如使用步行校车。要想有效，这些项目需要制度性的支持。学校应该采取多式联运的方式来接送学生。研究支持：本研究由罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊基金会的积极生活研究项目以及美国和加州交通部通过加州大学交通中心资助。
Problem: Rates of walking and bicycling to school have declined sharply in recent decades, and federal and state governments have committed funds to reverse these trends. To increase rates of walking and biking to school will require understanding why many parents choose to drive their children to school and how well existing programs, like Safe Routes to School, work. Purpose: We aimed to understand why many parents choose to drive their children even short distances to school, and what implications this has for programs to increase walking and biking to school. Methods: We used data from a telephone survey to explore why parents drive their children to school. Results and conclusions: We found that 75% of parents driving their children less than 2 miles to school said they did this for convenience and to save time. Nearly half of parents driving their children less than 2 miles did not allow their child to walk to school without adult supervision. Accompanying a child on a walk to school greatly increases the time the household devotes to such a trip. Few Safe Routes to School programs effectively address issues of parental convenience and time constraints. Takeaway for practice: Safe Routes to School programs should take parental convenience and time constraints into account by providing ways children can walk to school supervised by someone other than the parent, such as by using walking school buses. To be effective, such programs need institutional support. Schools should take a multimodal approach to pupil transportation. Research support: This research was funded by the Active Living Research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. and California Departments of Transportation through the University of California Transportation Center.