TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Factors affecting students’ walking/biking rates: initial findings from a Safe Route to School survey in Florida
JO  - Journal of transportation safety and security
A1  - Zhou, Huaguo
A1  - Yang, Jingzhen
A1  - Hsu, Peter
A1  - Chen, Susan
SP  - 14
EP  - 27
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
N2  - A Safe Route To School (SRTS) survey on students' travel modes for parents and students was conducted at 18 schools (16 elementary and 2 middle schools) in Pinellas County, Florida. A new diagnosis approach was used to pin down the factors significantly affecting students' travel modes, especially safety and security factors. The analysis was conducted in multiple perspectives, including (1) overview perspective that gives the general statistical information of each potential factor, (2) forward direction perspective that explores the cause-effect (how walking/biking rates change as different factor's levels change), and (3) backward direction perspective used to identify the similar properties of the student group with the same travel mode (walking/biking). Multiperspective diagnosis analysis identified different factors that significantly affect the walking/biking rate for different groups of students. Generally, students living in different distance intervals are subject to different barriers. Security and safety remain the primary factors of concern for parents to allow their children to walk or bike to school, especially for those living at short walkable distances. The other significant subjective variables include grade levels, school attitudes, enjoyment, healthy, allowable grade level, and student's attitude.    Keywords: walking; biking; traffic safety; safe routes to school; evaluation<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1943-9962
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19439960903564819
ID  - ref1
ER  -