Active travel and schools

Fiona Crawford and Asa Thomas

A chapter in Elgar Encyclopedia of Transport and Society, 2025, pp 10-11 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Active travel to school could include walking, cycling or scooting for all or some of the trip to school. Strong motivations for encouraging a shift towards more active travel for these trips include a reduction in emissions and improvements in children's health. School travel is also spatially uneven and temporally concentrated, often resulting in localised congestion with associated negative impacts. Different types of intervention have been successful in encouraging behaviour change for school travel, including a combination of infrastructure improvements and educational activities, more socially orientated interventions (such as walking school buses), and restrictions on traffic near schools.

Keywords: School travel; Active transport; Behaviour change; School Streets; Traffic restrictions; Walking school bus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035330515
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