Journal of Transportation Engineering and Its Applications ISSN: 3107-4499 (Online)

Authors: Amit Vashisth, Praveen Aggarwal

Abstract: Research suggests that, physical and environmental dimensions, the behavior and perceptions of parents played important role in deciding their children’s mode choice to school. The current study intends to research above uninvestigated area of study and identify the influences on parental attitudes towards their children travel to school. Through the use of a questionnaire, response is carried out with the help of survey forms, in these survey forms some question were asked also they have to rate the weightage to the factors such as distance to school, transportation facility, safety-road, safety-strangers danger, pedestrian facility, fee structure of school and some other factors which can be responsible for deciding them to choose mode for their children, with the help of these questions it was easy to explore the factors affecting travel pattern of school children from the parents point of view also, up to what extent parents are concerned about their child’s safety. The current study analyses some of the above factors which they thought to be responsible to decide whether their children are dependent on parents or not i.e. whether children travel with their parents or alone, based on data drawn from the Bahadurgarh city of Haryana state Survey of parents of more than 8 school pupil parents were surveyed.