Abstract
Recently, efforts for ensuring road traffic safety for children are deployed increasingly. For establishment of the effective traffic safety measures and education, we need to understand the children's ability to adapt to real traffic society appropriately, changing according to children's stage of development. In previous study, the authors verified the children's ability of road crossing decision against the distance and velocity of the approaching vehicle, taking an experimental approach for elementary school students on the community road. As the result, the elementary school students were not able to decide to cross the road taking the velocity of the approaching vehicle into account properly. Taking the practical approaches to children on the actual road in the city and the roles of parents and community people are very important for the implementation the sustainable safety education. In this study, the effects upon parents of information provision about the characteristics of the road crossing decision of children were examined based on the awareness questionnaire. It has been found that there is the gap between parents' consciousness and the actual situation of the children's ability and importance of sharing the proper recognition.
