Welcome to the Children and Mobility website



This website contains information and documents about the workshop on
Children and Traffic held in Copenhagen 2002, the Network on Children
and Mobility and other relevant information about children and mobility.




http://www.flux.teksam.ruc.dk/FLUX_UK/ChildrenMob/index_uk_ChildrenMob.h
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Thyra Uth Thomsen, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Professor (forskningsadjunkt)



FLUX - Center of Transport Research

Dept. of Environment, Technology and Social Studies, House 11.1

Roskilde University

P.O. 260

DK-4000 Roskilde

Denmark



Tel: +45 4674 2544

Fax: +45 4674 3041

E-mail: tut@...

Web: http://www.flux.teksam.ruc.dk





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Some good Links from this good site:






Transport Management Research Centre at Middelsex University Business
School draws on staff across the University who share a common interest
in transport management. Their aim is to develop innovative solutions to
fundamental problems, working in small teams that capitalise on a range
of expertise including statistical analysis, operational research,
psychology, engineering, marketing, and IT.

Link: <http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/roadtraffic/welcome.htm>
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/roadtraffic/welcome.htm






"Children's Perception of the Road Environment: the Implications for
Highway Design - Analysis of Interviews and Video Recordings".
Intermediate Report 01/14N, Middlesex University Business School -
Transport Management Research Centre. Ken Lupton and Mariana Bayley.

This document describes and presents an analysis of the collected data.
Video recordings of children's road crossing behaviour have been made at
21 sites at 18 junior and secondary schools in Hertfordshire and the
London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. At some of these
schools engineering measures to improve safety are currently being
introduced and 'before' filming has been carried out at these sites.
'After' filming will be carried out once these measures are in place.

Link: <http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/roadtraffic/interview.pdf>
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/roadtraffic/interview.pdf






"Reducing Children's Car Use: The Health and Potential Car Dependency
Impacts", University College London (UCL) - Centre for Transport
Studies.

According to the
<http://www.transtat.detr.gov.uk/tables/2000/nts/nts00.htm> National
Travel Survey, between 1985/86 and 1995/97 children aged 16 or less
increased the percentage of their trips by car from 35% to 48%. Over the
same period the percentage of trips to school by car went up from 16% to
29%. These trends have led to significant decreases in the amounts of
walking and cycling by children. Whilst the reasons for these shifts are
fairly clear, it is also clear that they may lead to significant
problems. As the <http://www.detr.gov.uk/itwp/paper/index.htm> 1998
White Paper on Transport says: `Not walking or cycling to school means
that children get much less exercise and builds in car dependency at an
early age'. Whilst there is an intuitive logic to this statement, it
raises a number of important research issues. The overall aim of this
project is to address these issues.

Link: <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transport-studies/chcaruse.htm>
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transport-studies/chcaruse.htm
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