School Travel Inequity between Students from Public and Private Schools in the City of Shenzhen, China

Understanding school travel inequities and promoting active travel policies more effectively is an increasingly important issue in the international transport policy agenda. Using the dataset of the 2014 Shenzhen primary and secondary school travel survey, this study empirically revealed the permane...

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Autores principales: Zuopeng Xiao, Taoyu Lin, Jingying Liao, Yaoyu Lin
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f7bf0b9383bb42d69c596cf272ee661d2021-11-29T00:56:31ZSchool Travel Inequity between Students from Public and Private Schools in the City of Shenzhen, China2042-319510.1155/2021/5032726https://doaj.org/article/f7bf0b9383bb42d69c596cf272ee661d2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5032726https://doaj.org/toc/2042-3195Understanding school travel inequities and promoting active travel policies more effectively is an increasingly important issue in the international transport policy agenda. Using the dataset of the 2014 Shenzhen primary and secondary school travel survey, this study empirically revealed the permanent residence permit (hukou) system in the context of China shapes the evident inequities between students from public schools and private schools. Students without a legitimated hukou to local areas suffer from more constraints, longer distances, and more time to access private schools which are excluded from the public sponsorship and have disadvantages in geographical locations. Applying the ordered logistic model, this study specifically investigated the influential factors of school commuting travel mode. Household vehicle ownership and travel features (i.e., chauffeuring and home-school distance) have a much more significant role in school travel mode decisions, which largely surpassed the role individual demographic attributes and the school surrounding built environment play. The implications of this study shed light on making more specific strategies for private schools to mitigate mobility inequity imposed on disadvantaged students.Zuopeng XiaoTaoyu LinJingying LiaoYaoyu LinHindawi-WileyarticleTransportation engineeringTA1001-1280Transportation and communicationsHE1-9990ENJournal of Advanced Transportation, Vol 2021 (2021)
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topic Transportation engineering
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Transportation and communications
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Transportation and communications
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Zuopeng Xiao
Taoyu Lin
Jingying Liao
Yaoyu Lin
School Travel Inequity between Students from Public and Private Schools in the City of Shenzhen, China
description Understanding school travel inequities and promoting active travel policies more effectively is an increasingly important issue in the international transport policy agenda. Using the dataset of the 2014 Shenzhen primary and secondary school travel survey, this study empirically revealed the permanent residence permit (hukou) system in the context of China shapes the evident inequities between students from public schools and private schools. Students without a legitimated hukou to local areas suffer from more constraints, longer distances, and more time to access private schools which are excluded from the public sponsorship and have disadvantages in geographical locations. Applying the ordered logistic model, this study specifically investigated the influential factors of school commuting travel mode. Household vehicle ownership and travel features (i.e., chauffeuring and home-school distance) have a much more significant role in school travel mode decisions, which largely surpassed the role individual demographic attributes and the school surrounding built environment play. The implications of this study shed light on making more specific strategies for private schools to mitigate mobility inequity imposed on disadvantaged students.
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author Zuopeng Xiao
Taoyu Lin
Jingying Liao
Yaoyu Lin
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Taoyu Lin
Jingying Liao
Yaoyu Lin
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title School Travel Inequity between Students from Public and Private Schools in the City of Shenzhen, China
title_short School Travel Inequity between Students from Public and Private Schools in the City of Shenzhen, China
title_full School Travel Inequity between Students from Public and Private Schools in the City of Shenzhen, China
title_fullStr School Travel Inequity between Students from Public and Private Schools in the City of Shenzhen, China
title_full_unstemmed School Travel Inequity between Students from Public and Private Schools in the City of Shenzhen, China
title_sort school travel inequity between students from public and private schools in the city of shenzhen, china
publisher Hindawi-Wiley
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/f7bf0b9383bb42d69c596cf272ee661d
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