Child mobility Lünen - STE - TU Dortmund

Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Transport infrastructure, urban structure and the trip to school - a case study of Luenen (NRW)

Despite the early contribution of Germany to research about child mobility there are virtually no studies from Germany that investigate child mobility under the perspective of a multitude of influences in a systematic and multivariate way. The available national travel surveys permit to do so only to a very limited extent, because essential variables are missing. In a questionnaire survey conducted in the Master thesis by Stefan Lohmüller suitable, high quality data were collected in early 2017. Parents of children attending one of seven primary schools in Lünen (form 1-4) were asked about their children's school trips.

In order to study the impact of urban form and transport infrastructure along the trip, that are of particular interest from the perspective of urban development and transport planning, relevant variables need to be matched with the questionnaire data. Such data are extracted from digital sources, collected on site, and processed in the project. The results of the subsequent analysis will be published in academic papers, but will also be discussed with a broader public at an information evening including the municipal adminstration, police, schools, parents etc.

The project was lead by Joachim Scheiner at the transport research group, Department of Spatial Planning.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Funding code: SCHE 1692/7-1

Project start and end: July 2017 to June 2018

Contact

Prof. Dr. Joachim Scheiner, joachim.scheinertu-dortmundde, Tel.: ++49 (0)231 755-4822

Publications

Scheiner, Joachim (2019): Mobilität von Kindern. Stand der Forschung und planerische Konzepte. In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 77(5), 441-456.

Scheiner, Joachim / Huber, Oliver / Lohmüller, Stefan (2019): Children's independent travel to and from primary school: evidence from a suburban town in Germany. In: Transportation Research Part A 120, 116-131. DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.12.016

Scheiner, Joachim / Huber, Oliver / Lohmüller, Stefan (2019): Children's mode choice for trips to primary school: a case study in German suburbia. In: Travel Behaviour & Society 15, 15-27.