SCHOOL TRAVEL DASHBOARd
1.0 ABOUT THE Dashboard
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The average driving rate for a London primary pupil travelling under 1 mile to school is 7%, that increases to 65% for distances of 1-2 miles [National Travel Survey]; the distance pupils have to travel to school is a huge determinant of how they travel.
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So, we applied these London driving rates to actual London primary pupil travel distances. The dashboard panels enable you to better understand school run travel for primary schools, and work out which school trips are most likely to be made sustainably and which are likely to be driven.
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You can take a look from a city-wide view, or break it down to Inner or Outer London, borough, ward, school type and school.
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These insights can help us better understand how many primary pupils are already travelling sustainably, which justifies the need for safe and healthy streets. Additionally, it can help to identify the areas and trip lengths generating the most school run driving, which can inform solutions.
2.0 HOW THIS data CAN help your active travel programs
If your remit as a council officer or councillor involves school streets or active travel, you can use the data insights in the dashboard to justify your school street or sustainable travel programmes. You can plan for them and take a deep dive into what other solutions are needed in your borough to reduce school run traffic.
COUNCIL officers and ward councillors
PARENTS AND CAMPAIGNERS
Do you want a safer area outside your school at drop off and pick up? Would you like to see a bike bus or a walking line? Or perhaps you are simply pulling your hair out at the school run traffic on your local roads? You can use the data insights to make your community campaigns stronger, clearer and more persuasive.
3.0 London key FINDINGS
The data in our dashboard provides integrated primary school travel insights from a Londonwide level right down to a ward or school level. At the Londonwide level;
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75% of primary pupils are walking and cycling to school, which is 600,000 pupils. These pupils often face road danger and pollution on these daily journeys and they deserve safer and healthier routes to school.
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25% of London primary pupils, which is 200,000 pupils are driven to school and we estimate these journeys make up 480,000 car trips per day.
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School run car use is most prevalent in the distance range of 1-2 miles to school. 100,000 of the total 200,000 primary pupils driven to school, are travelling this distance range, which is clearly where parents and children are finding it more challenging to walk or cycle to school.
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More insights on how far pupils are travelling across boroughs and schools types, are detailed in our Key Findings. .
4.0 TIPS FOR USING THE DASHBOARD
​On each panel, you can use the filters to select a school, school type, ward or borough of interest. This will update the analysis on the panel for that selection. You don't have to select every filter, you can jump straight to the filter of interest E.g. if you want to select a school you can just go to the school filter, you don't have to first select all the other filters first. For help understanding what the analysis on each panel displays, you can refer to our User Guide.
5.0 Modelling methodology
The data model calculates pupil travel distances using 2022 pupil catchment information and then estimates a model of travel for each distance band using London averages from the National Travel Survey.
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Since the mode of travel is modelled using London averages, this method will not account for factors such as car ownership, public transport, school culture which will in reality affect the driving rates for each borough/school. We hope to improve on this in future versions.
Full details can be found on the methodology page.
Any questions?
Please feel free to give us an email at hello@solvetheschoolrun.org.