Pedibus
The Pedibus (from French Pédibus ), also running school bus , walking bus , school bus on feet , bus on feet , school bus with feet , bus with feet , school bus on foot , bus on legs ( BaB ) or walking bus (from English walking bus ) is a measure to secure children's journeys to school . Here they walk to school or kindergarten and from there back home together. They are accompanied by an adult, also called a chauffeuse in this context . This follows an agreed route and picks up the children at certain times from agreed and appropriately signposted stops .
One of the purposes of the Pedibus is to avoid motorized private transport , as the parents no longer take the pupils individually - for example by car - to and from school, but only bring them to the next collection point. Furthermore, the measure serves to promote health and encourages the students to exercise more in everyday life. The Pedibus concept is gaining acceptance in more and more countries. The implementation is known in Australia, Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg, Austria and Switzerland.
term
Contrary to what the first impression of the term suggests, Pedibus (from the Latin pes = foot , pedes = pedestrian ) is not derived from the popular mass transport omnibus or its short form, bus . Rather, it is an expression already in use in the Roman Empire for the non-riding or traveling citizen or soldier, which can be translated as the dative plural of pes with walking , with the feet , as a pedestrian . Pedibus therefore means: moving with your feet .
Nonetheless, the widespread visual illustration makes sense and is child-friendly because, on the one hand, it creates a connection to the familiar school bus and, on the other hand, gives the children a pictorial idea of their new mode of transport: the similarity becomes visually clear to the children and can be physically experienced when they meet like in an omnibus as groups of two with a hand grip in a walking column , even more clearly when the entire marching column is connected to one another by a safety rope.
The Schulexpress project is a pedibus organized by schools . The project, which has been implemented over a hundred times across Germany, aims to prevent self-efficacy and the lack of exercise caused by the children's parents' taxi. Collection points of the school express can be decentralized to the school in order to distribute the traffic jam from parent taxis to these collection points.
Initial thought
The establishment of “pedibuses” developed from the need of committed parents and educators to enable their children to walk safely to kindergarten and school while restricting road traffic. The increasing practice of transporting children in school buses or private cars had also proven to be counterproductive both for the safety of the children and for their physical and psychological well-being at the start of school:
The concentration of traffic during the rush hour between the start and end of lessons leads to the so-called school rush hour , which is associated with a significantly increased risk for all children. In addition, there are boredom, resentment, annoyance, quarrels and injuries due to the restriction of the child's urge to move and being locked in the narrow vehicles. The teachers registered an increased aggressiveness and decreased receptiveness in the so-called "driving students" compared to the more balanced "pedestrians".
The idea, which originated in Australia , quickly spread across Europe via Great Britain . In Munich alone, more than thirty primary schools had joined the initiative by 2013 .
Situation in Germany
In Munich, the city administration is promoting the establishment of pedibuses as part of its “Gscheid mobil” initiative. For the 2013/14 school year, Leipzig ran a bus with feet for the first time. The Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) endeavors to make the model better known in Germany.
Situation in Austria
In Austria , the Pedibus idea was implemented in several federal states from 2009. In Tyrol , for example, the project is being carried out by the Tyrol Climate Alliance .
Situation in Switzerland
In Switzerland , the Pedibus, funded by the Swiss Transport Club (VCS), first arrived in the city of Lausanne from France in 1998 . After a continuous distribution in western Switzerland (as of autumn 2009 there were 250 lines in this region alone ), the Pedibus is now also gaining increasing acceptance in German-speaking Switzerland.
Critical assessment
The idea of the Pedibus is promoted primarily by nature conservation organizations , the Federal Environment Agency and the traffic clubs with an ecological focus in the various countries, because it serves to reduce the number of vehicles and thus protect the environment .
It is also supported by the sports associations and schools, because it accommodates the natural movement of children, communication on the way to school and a relaxed start to class.
In the context of traffic safety , however, this traffic aid is only seen as a temporary curative measure , which can only be of limited importance under the indispensable objective of making the individual child independent as a responsible road user :
In the opinion of the educator Siegbert A. Warwitz , inclusion in a group led by adults leads to the fact that attention and perception in practice (similar to the school bus) primarily focus on one another or primarily on oneself (similar to the parents' car) are less focused on the actual traffic situation. A discussion about the appropriate handling of traffic and a traffic pedagogical learning process are only beginning to take place. Touching the children in pairs and using a guide rope to additionally secure the column of children makes it difficult for individual children to spontaneously break out of the association. On the other hand, it creates a renewed nobility and restraint of the children when driving. The liberation from the confines of the parents' car and the rediscovery of walking together under the responsibility of adults is therefore only seen as a first step towards making the child independent in dealing with traffic. The children change from being a "passenger" in a vehicle to a "passenger" in a column of children. This must not become a permanent feature and can not replace up-to-date traffic education for responsible road users. Traffic educators therefore prefer to equip children with the skills needed to deal independently with traffic at an early stage.
According to the ideas of traffic education, the children should be able to plan their way to school as pedestrians independently and safely by their first year at the latest.
See also
literature
- MA Haller: Traffic education in preschool age as preparation for the way to school according to the Karlsruhe 12-step program . Knowledge State examination thesis GHS, Karlsruhe 2001
- Marco Hüttenmoser: The Pedibus on the way to school - not useful and worthy of funding . In: Verkehrszeichen , Heft 4/2010, pp. 20–22; ISSN 0179-535X
- Hermann Menge-Güthling: Encyclopedic dictionary of the Latin and German language . 7th edition, Berlin 1950
- Philipp Spitta: Learn continuously. The way to school in first grade . In: Ding-Wort-Zahl 30 (2002), pp. 17-22
- Siegbert A. Warwitz: The development of traffic awareness and traffic behavior in school beginners - the Karlsruhe model . In: magazine for traffic education, issue 4/1986, pp. 93–98
- Siegbert A. Warwitz: Children in the problem area of school rush hour . In: Ding-Wort-Zahl 86 (2007), pp. 52–60
- Siegbert A. Warwitz: Traffic education from the child. Perceive-play-think-act . 6th edition, Baltmannsweiler 2009, ISBN 978-3-8340-0563-2
- P. Wegener: The 'pedestrian diploma' method as a didactic concept to improve the roadworthiness of school beginners . Knowledge State examination thesis GHS Karlsruhe 1999
Web links
- Walking to school - running school bus Information from the Federal Environment Agency
- The VCD Laufbus - Safe to School Information from the Verkehrsclub Deutschland VCD
- Pedibus - the “school bus on your feet” Information from the Swiss Transport Club VCS
- PDF brochure Info Pedibus Tirol
- Kowalewski, Stephanie: Running instead of driving - Walking Bus replaces the car in dradio Campus & Karriere from April 8, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bus with feet on www.greencity.de, accessed on January 12, 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information on the school bus on foot at hoechstener-grundschule.de
- ↑ Bus on legs of the city of Ludwigsburg at www.ludwigsburg.de, accessed on January 12, 2015
- ↑ Hermann Menge-Güthling: Encyclopedic dictionary of the Latin and German language . 7th edition, Berlin 1950, p. 565
- ↑ Claudia Scholz: School express instead of parents' taxi - project in Bremen , Deutschlandfunk - Campus & Karriere from August 16, 2018 (mp3)
- ↑ Kristina Müller: Children should come to school independently in Ganderkesee . ( noz.de [accessed on August 19, 2018]).
- ^ NDR: traffic watch warns of "parents taxi" to school . ( ndr.de [accessed on August 19, 2018]).
- ↑ PDF brochure Info Pedibus Tirol
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz: Children in the problem field of school rush hour . In: Ding-Wort-Zahl 86 (2007), pp. 52–60
- ↑ Bus with feet at Green City e. V. ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.muenchen.de/themen/bildung/schule/bus-mit-fuessen.html
- ↑ http://www.leipzig.de/imperia/md/content/51_jugendamt/lernen_vor_ort/03-2013_newsletter_bildungsmanagement_leipzig.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ VCD wants to bring children "safely to school". Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, August 4, 2010, accessed on August 22, 2010 .
- ↑ NZZ Online, article accompanying children to school on foot instead of by car from October 15, 2009
- ↑ On foot to school - running school bus. Information from the Federal Environment Agency
- ↑ Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz (Ed.): With the Pedibus to school… ; Brochure ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The VCD Laufbus - Safe to School Information from the Verkehrsclub Deutschland VCD
- ↑ Philipp Spitta: Learn continuously. The way to school in first grade . In: Ding-Wort-Zahl 30 (2002), pp. 17-22
- ↑ Marco Hüttenmoser: The Pedibus on the way to school - not useful and worthy of funding . In: traffic signs . Issue 4, 2010, pp. 20-22
- ↑ Siegbert A. Warwitz: Traffic as a space to discover, as a challenge of ability and address of sociable action . In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child. Perceive-play-think-act . Baltmannsweiler, 6th edition 2009, pp. 51–58
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz: The way to the first solo effort . In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child . Baltmannsweiler, 6th edition 2009, pp. 190–215
- ^ MA Haller: Traffic education in pre-school age as preparation for the way to school according to the Karlsruhe 12-step program . Scientific state examination work GHS, Karlsruhe 2001
- ↑ P. Wegener: The ' pedestrian diploma ' method as a didactic concept for improving the roadworthiness of school beginners . Scientific state examination thesis GHS Karlsruhe 1999
