The role of socio-economic and environmental characteristics in school-commuting behavior: A comparative study of Jewish and Arab children in Israel

Wafa Elias and Rachel Katoshevski-Cavari

Transport Policy, 2014, vol. 32, issue C, 79-87

Abstract: School travel contributes to most of today's envisaged transport problems. However the literature dealing with school travel is limited. Hence, a study of school-travel patterns can generate many important insights that may impact transport-system policy and management. This paper focuses on school-commuting patterns and related perceptions of schoolchildren's parents among the Jewish and Arab populations of Israel. The study aims at understanding the commuting behavior of these children, ages 9–15. It examines the relationship between gender and socio-economic characteristics in the commuting behavior of Jewish and Arab schoolchildren. The basic hypothesis is that there are differences in school commuting patterns because of various differences between these two groups.

Keywords: Travel behavior; Activity patterns; Urban planning; School commuting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2013.12.007

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