2024 Volume 15 Pages 3055-3074
Active transport is an important form to enhance physical activity among school-going children. However, these active transport modes have been facing traffic safety problems among school-going children. Insights of active transport mode among school-going children could contribute to a decrease in traffic accidents. Children’s traffic behavior depends on their knowledge, attitude, and risk perception. The present study aims to discover the key elements impacting school-aged children’s walking and cycling by surveying 320 targeted students from 7th to 12th grades in Kerala and Maharashtra. The results indicated that students using active transport modes gained road safety knowledge, positive attitudes towards traffic safety, and risk perception; however, they behaved in an unsafe way on roads such as no use of zebra crossing. Traffic safety education which uses local situations and concentrates on skill development could enhance both safe behaviours and knowledge, attitude, and risk perception among school-going children using active transport modes.
