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SUMMARY:Safer Together: How do Parents Assess Street Safety when Biking wi
 th their Children? - Carlotta Henning
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DESCRIPTION:The Netherlands has experienced a decline in active school tra
 vel over the last decade. This is concerning\, considering that active sch
 ool travel supports children’s health and independence. Children’s mob
 ility choices are often linked to parents’ perception of their environme
 nt and traffic safety specifically. However\, there is currently little kn
 owledge on what specific factors inform parents’ perceived traffic safet
 y in a more bike-oriented context. This research employed a combination of
  literature reviews and interviews with mental maps\, to understand what f
 actors influenced parents’ perceived traffic safety in the Netherlands. 
 Overall\, this research established several factors that informed parents
 ’ perceived traffic safety. These included\, but were not limited to\, c
 omplex crossings\, high speed\, high traffic volume\, type of bike path\, 
 type of crossing\, and accidents along the route. This research also highl
 ighted that children’s characteristics (e.g. biking skills) and parents
 ’ approach to risk mitigated parents’ perceived traffic safety. Moreov
 er\, this research indicated that parents’ perception of traffic safety 
 did not solely depend on the individual factors found along the routes\, b
 ut also on the combination of factors present at any specific location. Fo
 r example\, a zebra crossing was perceived as less safe when coinciding wi
 th low visibility and fast-moving traffic. These findings largely overlapp
 ed with the literature\, with some important additions\, which can be attr
 ibuted to the bike-oriented context and methods of this study. A key infer
 ence from this study was that parents reduced the risk along their routes 
 by minimizing the chance for and consequences of unexpected behavior by th
 eir kids and other road actors. Hence\, parents favored infrastructure whi
 ch minimized the consequences of mistakes (e.g. independent bike paths) an
 d infrastructure where road actors’ behavior matched the expectation set
  by the infrastructure (e.g. traffic lights where cars stop). However\, th
 e conclusions in this research should be reconfirmed with a larger sample.
LOCATION:Room 2 (Lecture Room 2.1)
URL:https://pretalx.com/crbam-2026/talk/FBS8ZM/
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