Differences in parental perceptions of walking and cycling to high school according to distance

Parental perceptions towards different modes of transport correlate with adolescents’ mode choice for school trips. Whether parental attitudes differ for walking versus cycling and/or home-to-school distance is unknown. We compared parental perceptions of walking versus cycling to school in adolescents in Dunedin, New Zealand and examined whether mode-specific barriers differ by distance to school. Parents (n = 341; age: 47.5 ± 5.2 years; 77.1%...