Abstract
The City of Sapporo has tried Mobility Management (MM) education at elementary schools in the city since 2011 on the basis of the idea that such education for children may increase their awareness to mobility management and it will be effective to realize an environmentally friendly community toward the future. A working team to promote this trial has been established. The team members consist of the teachers who are members of the Hokkaido Social Study Education Association, the Transport Department of the City of Sapporo and a consulting company. The latter two are sharing the work of the team’s secretariat. The efforts of the working team include: organizing workshops for teachers to study about MM, publishing sub-texts for children to understand MM, creating MM education guidelines for teachers and organizing a data base to be used in transport relevant classes at schools. Those efforts have continued for eight years and parties concerned intend to extend them, continually developing MM classes and encouraging as many elementary schools as possible to adopt such education. Through an actual case, this study examines vital factors that will be useful to continue and extend the elementary level MM education.
