Time-Distance as a Factor in the Delivery of School Bus Services to Households in the Eastern Townships School Board, Quebec

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Time-Distance as a Factor in the Delivery of School Bus Services to Households in the Eastern Townships School Board, Quebec
Abstract
The author notes that for students and their families that live within the regional school system of Quebec, travel to school by bus has become a "fixed" activity. He explains that households operate within a complex system of time, distance and accessibility constraints in adapting to the impact of this fixed bus schedule. The author focuses on the impact of this daily bus ride on the perceptions and behaviours of these households. He adapted the "Household Activity-Travel Simulator (HATS)" technique, developed at Oxford University, to a survey of 64 households in the Eastern Townships School Board of Quebec. He selected households according to time-distance from the two English secondary schools in the region (Alexander Galt Regional Secondary School and Richmond Regional Secondary School). His interview/survey solicited student and family responses and behaviours with respect to the daily bus trip. The author's study tests six related hypotheses on the effects of such large time units devoted to riding a bus. The hypotheses search for relationships between travel time and the daily activity schedules of students and their families. Through a number of quantitative and qualitative measures, the author's study concludes that the bus trip has an effect on students and, to a lesser degree, on their families.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
McGill University
Place
Montreal
Date
1992
# of Pages
[x]-152p.
Language
en
URL
Citation
Fox, Michael John. “Time-Distance as a Factor in the Delivery of School Bus Services to Households in the Eastern Townships School Board, Quebec.” Master’s Thesis, McGill University, 1992. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/8s45qb50v.
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