Survey ID
Comment
1248111
Lack of sidewalks on Parke Ave is a huge issue with allowing my kids to walk to school.
1248645
Parke Ave is too dangerous for young walkers.
1248896
They should bring safety patrol back before and after school.
STUDENT TRAVEL TALLY – SELECT QUESTIONS For complete Student Travel Tally results see Appendix B
The student travel tally survey is used to quantify students’ travel both to and from school by travel mode. The tally form is administered in school, by teachers. The count is administered school-wide in one single school week. Doing the tally on all three mid-week days (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) is greatly preferred but two of three midweek days is acceptable. Monday and Friday are avoided as possible weekend plans and/or holidays are more likely to affect students’ regular travel behaviors on those two days. Students are asked by a show of hands how they arrived at school that day and then how they plan to leave for home after school. This survey also records weather conditions on each particular day, morning and afternoon separately, as inclement weather can have an obvious effect on children walking or biking to and from school.
The student travel tally counts represent the number of actual recorded student trips to school in the morning (629) and from school in the afternoon (562) on three consecutive school days in October, 2014. Differences in these numbers are likely due to teachers forgetting to record a morning and/or afternoon travel tally on one or more days. When the tally was recorded the Glyndon-Felton Elementary School had 398 students enrolled.
Question – How did you arrive at school today? How do you plan to leave for home after school? Travel mode results from the student travel tally generally match up with the travel mode results from the parent survey. According to the tally as seen in Figure 33 and Table 14, the combined rate of walking and biking to school in the morning was eight percent (five percent walking, three percent biking). This combined rate then increased to 12 percent in the afternoon (eight percent walking, four percent biking). This is similar to the results of the parent survey with which found a 2.8 percent morning and 7.8 percent afternoon walking and biking mode share. Riding the school bus and traveling in a family vehicle were the two most frequent travel modes. The tally results showed 64 percent of students taking the school bus in the morning and 73 percent in the afternoon (parent survey 68 / 79 percent) and 26 percent of students taking the family vehicle to school in the morning and 13 percent in the afternoon (parent survey 28 / 13 Chapter 8: Standardized SRTS Survey Analysis | P a g e 83
