Analysis of the Influence of How Junior Middle School Students Go to School -Taking the Four Middle Schools in Tainan for Examples

• Main Authors: HUANG, Hsin-Yi, 黃欣怡
• Other Authors: SU, Chen-Kang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ucsbrt

碩士 === 長榮大學 === 土地管理與開發學系碩士班 === 98 === The environment in which the students go to school is the most crowded and dangerous section of the entire city traffic. In order to guarantee the safety of students, with the coordination of the government and education authorities, the traffic guidance and civic police are established; traffic safety publication is promoted in each school; special routes are planned separately for pedestrians and vehicles in the blocks where schools are located when students go to school or return home. This research links bicycles, walking, junior middle school students and the neighborhood together, in order to understand the best way to go to school that matches the neighborhood environment. Surveys are carried out to the willingness of cycling or walking to school to infer the understanding of junior middle school students for choosing the best way to go to school to match the neighborhood environment. Based on questionnaires completed by the students with regular and irregular excising, i.e. cycling or walking to school regularly, this research also investigates if the physique index of the students reaches the standards – the junior middles school students are in puberty, so their metabolism is good, however, their health is another case. The aims of body building and environmental protection shall be achieved at the same time if they could include exercising in the daily transportation activities. The object of this research is analyzing the neighborhood environment differences of different schools with real evidences, putting forward some neighborhood environment conditions that are suitable for students to cycle or walk to school and providing some references for the school. After data collection and analysis and with the help of questionnaires, this research investigates deeper into the reasons for the junior middle school students choose their ways to school, then combines and compares the second-hand data of the school background and the questionnaire results. At last the research hypothesis is brought forward to echo with the questionnaire data. The conclusions of this research are as follow: I. The neighborhood environment has certain influence to the students and their parents when choosing the ways to go to school. The number of crossroads has a positive correlation with the number of students choosing to be taken to and picked up at school (the “Number”). The population density, business density, residence density, width of sidewalk, and road percentage have a negative correlation with the Number. As for the non neighborhood part, sex has a positive correlation with the Number; the number of vehicle owned has a positive correlation with the Number. However, the number of bicycles owned has no remarkable correlation with the Number. II. Providing a good neighborhood environment that can reduce the accident rate is helpful for students to choose to walk or cycle to school. This research also generalizes the reasons of the accidents happen to students on their way to school, such as personal reasons and reasons of substantial measures, which will provide the schools with the knowledge of the reasons that cause the accidents. The reasons of the students themselves, problems with the drivers and crowded lanes with lots of cars parked are the common causes of the accidents.