Exploring the parents' behaviors for pick-up of school students

Studying the influencing factors of parents' choice of travel mode for picking up elementary school students is of great significance to formulate the travel policy in the morning and evening rush hours. Combining the personal attributes and family attributes of parents and students, the travel attribute factors such as the purpose of follow-up trip, physiological cost and delay time were considered. Based on the multinomial logit model, this paper analyzed the influencing factors of the choice of transportation modes for parents to pick up students. The results show that the older parents are more likely to choose walking. Besides, students' gender has no significant impacts on parents' pick-up mode choice. However, parents' gender and students' age do. Parents, especially female ones, prefer non-motorized vehicles if the child is younger, but they are more likely to choose motor vehicles for transportation when their follow-up travel is to work. Car drivers need to spend more time picking up children, but the physiological costs and delay time of the car are relatively small. Electric bicycle rider may spend lower physiological and time costs. According to the research results, the study put forward relevant improvement suggestions from the dimensions of family, school, and traffic control, which can provide guidance for relevant departments to formulate traffic planning management policies and programs from the perspective of school commuting travel.