The relationship between transportation vulnerability, school attendance, and free transportation to an afterschool program for youth

Patel, Hersila H.; Messiah, Sarah E.; Hansen, Eric; D’Agostino, Emily M.

doi:10.1007/s11116-020-10131-x

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“…The subject of school attendance by children, a global issue, has been researched in the past. Unaffordability of school fees causing early dropouts [1], low levels of family income inducing frequent absenteeism owing to children tending to engage in income-earning activities [2] [3], insufficiency of non-financial incentives to attend schools [4], the inadequacy of attention paid to the issue by families and teachers [5], and locational issues giving rise to problems including transportation [6], [7], [8] have been cited as influencing factors. The latter issue becomes more prominent when the distances from residential localities to schools are high, and when the family income levels become low to afford private modes of mobility.…”

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Influence of state bus services on school attendance in under-privileged remote areas: reflections from a case analysis in estate areas of Haputale, Sri Lanka

Gunaruwan,

Nithiyalini

2023

J. S. Asian Logistics Transport

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Free education for all in Sri Lanka has enabled significant improvements in educational performance and living standards. However, there are still some issues unresolved; one being the difficulties in accessing education facilities in the townships, owing to mobility constraints. Students residing in plantation areas, for instance, become inconvenienced when public bus services are absent or unreliable.The present research quantitatively examined the significance of SLTB bus service availability, inter-alia, in determining the school attendance rate of students residing in remote estate areas. The Haputale Education Division was examined as a case study. Results indicated that, among factors that could significantly affect the level of school attendance of estate children, the availability of SLTB service on estate routes would be very crucial; a significant increase in attendance being realisable if SLTB’s scheduled school bus trips operated with greater reliability. The importance of affordable mobility services for school attendance in remote areas, is thus examined.The study enabled inference that the policy priority should be assigned to further strengthen and expand bus services. This intervention is likely to be more beneficial than focusing on other apparently influential determinants. However, the generalisability of these findings to other estate areas and geographically remote localities of the country needs to be confirmed through further research.

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Influence of state bus services on school attendance in under-privileged remote areas: reflections from a case analysis in estate areas of Haputale, Sri Lanka

Gunaruwan,

Nithiyalini

2023

J. S. Asian Logistics Transport

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Social Forces, Social Justice, and School Attendance Problems in Youth

Kearney

Childs

Burke

2022

Contemp School Psychol

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Moral Panic and Electric Micromobilities: Seeking Space for Mobility Justice

Travers,

Scott,

Reed

et al. 2023

Sociological Perspectives

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This article makes the case that electric micromobilities (EMMs) are the site of a moral panic and employs the lens of mobility justice to explain it. Through analysis of scholarly and media discourse, interviews with, and social media content produced by, EMM riders (eriders), and the auto ethnographic experiences of the lead author as an electric unicycle rider in daily life, as a participant in online and offline “erider” communities, and as a food delivery worker, we reinforce the conclusion that alternate mobilities face an uphill battle in gaining legitimacy and inclusion in transportation policy and infrastructure. While this is not a new finding—alternate mobilities have a long history of being demonized and excluded—this article offers insight into how individuals who find themselves unwitting scapegoats in conflicts over public space consciously engage in deliberate actions to resist EMM panic and achieve greater mobility justice.

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The relationship between transportation vulnerability, school attendance, and free transportation to an afterschool program for youth

Cited by 3 publications

References 37 publications

Influence of state bus services on school attendance in under-privileged remote areas: reflections from a case analysis in estate areas of Haputale, Sri Lanka

Influence of state bus services on school attendance in under-privileged remote areas: reflections from a case analysis in estate areas of Haputale, Sri Lanka

Social Forces, Social Justice, and School Attendance Problems in Youth

Moral Panic and Electric Micromobilities: Seeking Space for Mobility Justice

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