School commuting, carbon footprint and sociospatial implications: evidence from French pupils

Mobilité scolaire quotidienne, empreinte carbone et enjeux sociospatiaux: le cas des collégiens girondins

Thibault Isambourg
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Thibault Isambourg: LAET - Laboratoire Aménagement Économie Transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, BSE - Bordeaux sciences économiques - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: Rising several issues, home-to-school mobility provides an international literature from various fields. Medical disciplines warn of a decline in active travelling as a major public health problem. Social sciences study this mobility with regard to the role it plays in children's quality of life and its influence on the behaviours they will exhibit as adults. Nevertheless, the study of environmental externalities and sociospatial disparities of this mobility remains limited, especially in the French literature. This research relies on a survey conducted in Gironde, a French department, questioning pupils of the French "college" (11 – 15 years old) in the public sector about their home-to-school mobility. We begin by calculating the greenhouse gases emitted by these trips. We then seek to better understand the links between these emissions and mobility patterns in relation to the child's social and spatial attributes, to better formulate actions that address both emission reduction and mobility inequities.

Keywords: Greenhouse gases (GHG); Home-to-school mobility; Modal behaviour; Sociospatial imbalance; Youth; Comportements modaux; Disparités sociospatiales; Jeunes; Mobilité quotidienne scolaire; Gaz à effet de serre (GES) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-09-03
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Published in Les Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport / Scientific Papers in Transportation, inPress

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