CHILDREN’S TRAVEL AND SUSTAINABILITY
D. Waygood, E. Owen ; Johansson, Maria LU
and Litsmark, Anna
LU
(2025)
p.50-62
- Abstract
Transport has a large impact on children’s lives from facilitating or limiting their mobility and access to destinations to impacting their health and wellbeing. However, cities have primarily focused on facilitating motor vehicle travel, which is an adult-exclusive mode. Likely, as a result, many children are escorted to places. In this chapter, we summarize literature on children’s travel from a sustainability perspective and link it to the planning, design, and management of child-friendly environments. Children’s independent travel is generally sustainable from an environmental perspective and a social perspective as it is principally by active and mass-transit modes which have limited emissions and integrate physical activity. As... (More)
Transport has a large impact on children’s lives from facilitating or limiting their mobility and access to destinations to impacting their health and wellbeing. However, cities have primarily focused on facilitating motor vehicle travel, which is an adult-exclusive mode. Likely, as a result, many children are escorted to places. In this chapter, we summarize literature on children’s travel from a sustainability perspective and link it to the planning, design, and management of child-friendly environments. Children’s independent travel is generally sustainable from an environmental perspective and a social perspective as it is principally by active and mass-transit modes which have limited emissions and integrate physical activity. As such, the chapter ends by discussing how cities might better support children’s independence through improved city planning and design that allows for children’s participation, takes their opinions into account, and makes them feel safe and secure.
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- author
- D. Waygood, E. Owen
; Johansson, Maria
LU
and Litsmark, Anna
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Urban Transport
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- Taylor and Francis A.S.
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:105014571903
- ISBN
- 9781032545684
- 9781040395790
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003425489-6
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 9d436ba2-8619-417b-af97-da1da7f178d4
- date added to LUP
- 2025-11-17 10:23:06
- date last changed
- 2025-11-18 03:42:50
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author = {{D. Waygood, E. Owen and Johansson, Maria and Litsmark, Anna}},
booktitle = {{The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Urban Transport}},
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title = {{CHILDREN’S TRAVEL AND SUSTAINABILITY}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003425489-6}},
doi = {{10.4324/9781003425489-6}},
year = {{2025}},
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