关键词: 城市交通, 交通特征, 问卷调查, 小学, 校车, 交通拥堵, 安全

Abstract: Pupils’ travel to and from school is an important part of urban travel.With the accelerating process of urbanization and motorization, more and more families own cars, as well as the proportion of transporting students to and from school by private cars are gradually increased.Therefore, during the travel to and from school, the traffic congestion around schools is extremly serious, which brings about the safety issues of students travel to school, and the issues are increasingly prominent.In this paper, three primary schools in Beijing Zhongguancun area are chosen for study.And a large scale of thorough investigation is conducted by questionnaire, which surveys the students’ residence distribution, transportation structure, travel distance and parents’ views about taking the school bus, etc.Based on the analysis of the survey results, it can be found that, parents have a great demand for the opening of the school bus, and the regularization and safety of the school bus operation is the prime attractive reason for their choices.Finally, suggestions for school bus are proposed in terms of operational mode, route planning, legal protection, traffic management, and security publicity.

Key words: urban traffic, traffic characteristics, questionnaire survey, primary school, school bus, traffic congestion, safety