Children’s Local Travel Behaviour - How the Environment Influences, Controls and Facilitates it

Abstract

June 2007 This paper reports results from a project that uses questionnaires, diaries, activity monitors and GPS monitors to explore how children move about in the local environment. The patterns are analysed in terms of speed, energy consumption and sinuosity. Differences are examined for three types of activity: unstructured activities (playing), structured activities (clubs and sports) and walking, and in two types of environment: roads, tracks and paths, and open space. Walking is also examined in terms of differences in children’s spatial behaviour when they are accompanied by an adult and when they are not. Interesting differences are found. Whilst the results are preliminary, they suggest that there is need for more analysis of both this data set, and by extension to other environments. Children,Travel behaviour,Diaries,GPS,Activity monitors

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