The Relative Risks of School Travel (repost)
The Relative Risks of School Travel
Transportation Research Board National Resear | August 2002 | ISBN-10: 0309077036 | 170 pages | PDF | 2.12 Mb
Transportation Research Board National Resear | August 2002 | ISBN-10: 0309077036 | 170 pages | PDF | 2.12 Mb
"TRB Special Report 269 - The Relative Risks of School Travel: A National Perspective and Guidance for Local Community Risk Assessment" presents a method to estimate, on a per-mile and per-trip basis, the relative risks that students face in traveling to and from school by walking, bicycling, riding in passenger vehicles with adult drivers, riding in passenger vehicles with teenage drivers, or taking a bus. These estimated risk measures can assist localities in developing policies to improve the safety of students traveling to school and in evaluating policies that affect mode choices by students and their parents. The report also includes checklists of actions to reduce the risks associated with each mode of school travel. Children in the United States travel to and from school and school-related activities by a variety of modes. Because parents and their school-age children have a limited understanding of the risks associated with each mode, it is unlikely that these risks greatly influence their school travel choices.