Review of Research on School Travel
Overview
Background & policy context:
The Scottish School Travel Advisory Group (Scottish STAG) was established by the Scottish Executive in August 2000 with the objective of increasing the proportion of non-car based travel to school. The group seeks to identify practical means of increasing choices and influencing behaviour, and to develop a coherent approach to the management and administration of school travel. To ensure that their recommendations are based on state of the art knowledge, the group need, a concise summary of evidence on school travel drawn from UK and international research.
Objectives:
The aims of this project are to review UK and international research on travel to school published since 1995 including the research on factors affecting school travel and the effectiveness of school travel initiatives designed to address obstacles to efficient school travel.
Methodology:
The review has been tackled in three stages:
- Scoping of national policies on school travel;
- Broad map of available literature based on published bibliographies and two major recent literature reviews for UK STAG, supplemented by web and library based searches;
- A detailed review of selected literature drawing mainly from the sources identified above but supplemented by additional references identified within particular papers.
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