This project was researched in 2005 by a team of experts commissioned by CIPRA as part of the Future in the Alps Project. The contents are not being updated.
- Best Practice
- Topics
- New forms of decision-making
- Mobility
- Short description
- A process aimed to change the individual and public ways of life towards new sustainable forms of mobility in the school-home paths.
- Participants
- school children, parents, “mobility manager”
- Objectives
- - to implement the adoption of sustainable behaviours towards home-school mobility; - to develop new forms of urban sustainability; - to implement the growth of a responsible and active citizenship; - to develop applicable solutions to solve complex environmental problems; - to develop the capacity of defining the relations between personal behaviours and global fall out.
- Activities
- 1. Pedibus: it is a very particular “walking bus”, which stops at precise hours close to the children’s homes; 2. Bicibus: basically the same as the Pedibus but with bicycles; 3. Car Pooling: a parent who has to use his/her car to bring his/her child/children to school decides to carry even someone’s else child/children, who lives in the nearby or along the path to school, in order to reduce the number of circulating cars towards the school.
- Process
- The project is normally articulated in 2-4 meetings within the children and the mobility manager during which the class is made aware of the problem related to traffic and pollution and of the necessity to stop this situation. The children are motivated on the contribution that they can give to the improvement of this situation: by analysing the map of their neighbourhood, in fact, they soon realise that some of them live very close to each other so it could be useful to meet and to go together to school. The pathways suggested by children are then approved by those parents who have decided to make themselves available to go with the children. There are three ways through which sustainable mobility can be realised.
- Results
- The results of the project are the definition and the experimentation together with children, parents, teachers and external mobility managers of a weekly sustainable mobility plan of the classes involved in the initiative.
- Evaluation
- No data available
- Difficulties
- No data available
- Budget
- No data available (Euro)
- Financial backer
- No data available