Influences of the Built Environment on Rural School Children’s Travel Mode Choice: The Case of Chengdu

Haimei Li, Li Han, Yibin Ao, Yan Wang and Tong Wang
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Haimei Li: Humanities and Law School, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
Li Han: College of Environment and Civil Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
Yibin Ao: College of Environment and Civil Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
Yan Wang: Department of Engineering Management, Sichuan College of Architectural Technology, Deyang 618014, China
Tong Wang: Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 15, 1-18

Abstract: Since the reform and opening up of China, the rural built environment has changed dramatically. There is a need to understand how such changes have impacted rural children’s school travel mode choice to design the built environment and plan schools accordingly. This paper combines field measurement methods and questionnaires to obtain data on rural children’s school travel behavior and uses the multinomial logit (MNL) model to investigate the impacting factors. The results show the following insights: Age has a significant positive impact on children’s choice of bicycles and buses. The improvements in road layout and facility conditions are significantly and positively associated with children’s choice of electric bicycles for school. There is a significant positive correlation between a good and safe public environment and children’s choice of cycling. Furthermore, distance from home to school has a significant impact on the choice of children’s school travel mode: the greater the distance to school, the higher the probability that children will choose motorized modes of travel such as buses and private cars. This study provides empirical data and evidence in designing rural transport systems for school children based on their preferences concerning built environment factors.

Keywords: urbanization; rural built environment; school travel; the multinomial logit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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