Accompanying traffic

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Accompanying traffic is the covering of routes for the purpose of accompanying people. It includes, for example, accompanying children or young people to school , day care and afternoon activities, as well as accompanying older people or those in need of care. The concept of mobility linked to other people is also included under the term accompanying mobility .

Most of the children are brought and picked up by private car , but also by public transport , by bike or on foot . Parental accompaniment with vehicles, especially with the car, is colloquially often referred to as a parent taxi .

Role in traffic volume

In particular, parental transport services are assigned a significant share in the growth in individual transport . The accompaniment of children is often linked to other routes, especially the route to work. Comparisons between studies from 1987 and 2002 show that children and adolescents are increasingly accompanied by parents and other adults and that their independent mobility has declined during this period.

In the context of transport policy and planning, it was pointed out that taking people along in the transport statistics is considered individual transport , but is increasingly assuming central functions of local public transport.

The data situation on accompanying traffic in Germany is thin due to the type of traffic surveys and statistics. In 1996, the German Bundestag, in its answer to a question from several MPs and the SPD parliamentary group regarding women-specific aspects of traffic, pointed out that "the accompanying traffic work for the children is necessary primarily because their risk from road traffic is increasing" . At the same time, however, she replied to question 29 of this inquiry as to whether the Federal Government could state the extent of the accompanying traffic work performed by women and what the Federal Government was doing to address “this part of traffic, which up to now has often been incorrectly classified as 'leisure time' due to insufficiently differentiated survey methodology 'is subsumed, to make recognizable ", with the statement: " The Federal Government has no knowledge of the scope of the' escort work 'of women and men, insofar as this is understood to mean accompanying people in traffic " . At the same time, she referred to contributions to the reduction of traffic volume through suitable urban planning and a change in the federal legal framework through the Investment Facilitation and Housing Land Act in the sense of a “ city ​​of short distances ”.

For the first time in Germany, the purpose of the journey “fetching and bringing people” was listed as a separate category in the survey “ kontiv 2002 - Mobility in Germany ” published in 2003 .

Causes and effects

The increase carried out by private car traffic accompanying the proportion reduced the footpaths will be one of the causes of lack of exercise considered in children and adolescents and construed as narrowing the space sensual experience of children and adolescents. This development is also criticized because of its impact on the environment and the flow of traffic , especially during the morning rush hour . Transport by private car also encourages children to get used to them and the role model function of the parents in a stronger orientation towards the car among the younger generation. The social and educational scientist Hartmut Krauss emphasizes that the environmentally harmful use of automobiles by bringing and fetching children, primarily through mothers, creates a vicious circle with the automobile being deeply anchored in the modern western way of life.

In the individual weighing up of the effort and benefit on the part of the parents, the avoidance of hazards plays a primary role. From a societal perspective, however, an increase in escort traffic on the one hand and increasing traffic density and the associated greater risk for children in road traffic on the other hand are viewed as mutually reinforcing processes. It is sometimes said that the child's living space is becoming "isolated": it is increasingly being divided into several spatially separated areas that the children cannot reach independently. So the dependency on an accompaniment by adults increases.

Promoting the autonomous mobility of children and the elderly is highlighted as a way of reducing the need for transport services. As a measure to relieve parents of accompanying mobility, an expansion of the delivery and transport services for children is also mentioned.

If necessary, families can reduce the time it takes to bring and fetch them to some extent by carpooling with one another . At the mobility management level , school transports (e.g. school buses ), measures for greater road safety for children and initiatives such as the Pedibus are intended to reduce accompanying traffic.

Studies and initiatives on accompanying mobility are partly funded as part of European Union projects , such as the EU research project SUN - Saving energy by using Mobility Management in Schools and the PROVIDER project on school mobility management.

See also

Individual evidence

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