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Child and learner travel in Cape Town: Problems and prospects

Child and learner travel in Cape Town: Problems and prospects Child and Learner Travel in Cape Town: Problems and Prospects Roger Behrens Available national census data indicate that approximately 35 percent of met- ropolitan Cape Town's currently estimated 3.2 million population are children aged 18 years or less, and 24 percent are children of a school-going age. Travel survey data from 2001 indicate that children and learners are responsible for a slightly smaller, but nevertheless quantitatively very significant, proportion of total trip-making in Cape Town (Behrens, 2002). Crude estimations suggest that children aged 18 years or less account for some 29 percent of the 8.6 million daily trips undertaken by all travel modes for all purposes, and school-going children for about 22 percent. FACTS OF CHILD AND LEARNER TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR IN CAPE TOWN A combination of apartheid policies which dictated an analytical focus on the daily transportation of Coloured and African labour in and out of cities, and the particular focus of the survey and modelling methods that have dominated past South African practices, has imposed limitations on the scope of available travel data (Behrens, 2004). Most representations of travel needs and behaviour in Cape Town have been restricted to either commuting or travel occurring within peak periods. Baseline http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

Child and learner travel in Cape Town: Problems and prospects

Behrens, Roger
Urban Forum , Volume 15 (3) – Jul 21, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2004 by Springer SBM
Subject
Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Human Geography; Sociology; Political Science; Population Economics
ISSN
1015-3802
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1874-6330
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10.1007/s12132-004-0003-7
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Child and Learner Travel in Cape Town: Problems and Prospects Roger Behrens Available national census data indicate that approximately 35 percent of met- ropolitan Cape Town's currently estimated 3.2 million population are children aged 18 years or less, and 24 percent are children of a school-going age. Travel survey data from 2001 indicate that children and learners are responsible for a slightly smaller, but nevertheless quantitatively very significant, proportion of total trip-making in Cape Town (Behrens, 2002). Crude estimations suggest that children aged 18 years or less account for some 29 percent of the 8.6 million daily trips undertaken by all travel modes for all purposes, and school-going children for about 22 percent. FACTS OF CHILD AND LEARNER TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR IN CAPE TOWN A combination of apartheid policies which dictated an analytical focus on the daily transportation of Coloured and African labour in and out of cities, and the particular focus of the survey and modelling methods that have dominated past South African practices, has imposed limitations on the scope of available travel data (Behrens, 2004). Most representations of travel needs and behaviour in Cape Town have been restricted to either commuting or travel occurring within peak periods. Baseline

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Published: Jul 21, 2004

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