Safe Way to Elementary School - The Cases Study of Bo Ai Elementary School and Wu Xingjie Elementary School in Taipei

• Main Authors: Kuang-Ling Cheng, 鄭光伶
• Other Authors: Lih-Yau Song
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5exr67

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 建築與都市設計研究所 === 96 === There has been plenty of emphasis on existing facility and equipment in the city space. However, there is still room of improvement for students’ daily road safety around the school surrounding area. According to the statistics data, obviously the traffic accidents happen much more frequent right before or after school time. Among all campus accidents in elementary schools, the death toll of traffic accident is the highest, and most of them were happened either on the way to school or on the way home. Students’ road safety became most of parents’ biggest concern and it is also the reason not to let children walk to school. Therefore, it is important and necessary to provide safe Neighborhood Streets for children. Besides help prevent children’s traffic accidents on the way to school, well designed Neighborhood Streets can also be fun and educational. By making the way to school interesting and inviting, learning can be extended to outside of classroom as a positive experience to children’s development. The purpose of this research is to review policies related to Neighborhood Streets and the efficiency of these policies. Furthermore, by interviewing residents live in the neighborhood with Neighborhood Streets, improvements were suggested. The neighborhood without Neighborhood Streets was also studied as a comparison. The different needs and expectations between the two neighborhoods could be used as references for the future Neighborhood Street designs. Research methods such as documentation analysis, questionnaire survey, expert interview, inductive analysis were used in this paper to investigate the actual use of Neighborhood Streets. By understanding the essential needs of each neighborhood, we were able to better suggest the future design of the Neighborhood Streets in city planning.