Full Description
This book presents groundbreaking research on children's perceptions and experiences of their surroundings, examining how these perceptions shape their travel decisions and overall well-being. Drawing on extensive case studies from diverse regions in China, it provides valuable insights into the unique challenges rural children face in their daily journeys to school and other destinations. Journey through both urban and rural environment as we analyze the complex relationships between neighborhood design, road environments, and children's travel mode choices. The book uses innovative approaches, including machine learning/SHAP modeling and nonlinear analysis, to uncover the mechanisms by which the built environment influences children's travel behavior.
Contents
Chapter 1. Current research status of children's friendly built environment and travel behavior.- Chapter 2. Rural children and their preference for schoolward school road; a visualized stated preference experiment.- Chapter 3. Child Friendliness of Rural School Travel Road: Improvement Strategies Based on Rural Children's Perception.- Chapter 4. Built environment impacts on rural school children travel mode choice: The case of Chengdu.- Chapter 5. The built environment impacts on route choice from home to school for rural students: a stated preference experiment.- Chapter 6. Children's Perceptions of Road Environments in Urban-Rural Fringe Areas.- Chapter 7. The influence of neighborhood environments on children's travel mode choices.- Chapter 8. The nonlinear influence of neighborhood-built environment on children's travel distance.- Chapter 9. Non-linear effects of children's daily travel distance on their travel mode choice considering different destinations.- Chapter 10. Conclusion and future research direction.
