Primary school children on the move - 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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Primary school children on the move

Primary school children on the move – The relevance of the built and transport environment for child mobility

Project aims

The mobility of children is of increasing importance in international urban and transport research, particularly with respect to travel mode choice and children's independent travel. However, Germany faces a striking lack of research in the field. The focus of the project is on elementary school children's mobility in Dortmund.

Empirical analyses serve to provide answers to the following research questions:

(1) Which elements of the built and transport-related environment and which social effects promote or impede the independent and/or non-motorised mobility of school children?

(2) Which associations can be established between school trips and other aspects of child travel (e.g. trips to places of play and leisure)?

(3) Which effects do transport planning concepts have on child travel?

The results will be discussed with practitioners in civil society and policy. The results of these discussions will enter the project in the form of an actor analysis.

Methodology

In a standardised questionnaire survey among twelve primary schools in Dortmund (n=1.202), the parents were asked about their children's mobility in October 2020 (prior to the second lockdown). A large-scale, detailed inventory of the children's spatial and transport environment will be carried out in the project. The data will be merged with the questionnaire data.

Contact

David Hölzel, david.hoelzel@tu-dortmund.de

Telephone ++49 (0)231 755 2298

Funding: Karl-Vossloh-Stiftung

Project start and end: August 2022 – July 2025

Publications

Hölzel, David (2022): Aktionsräume als Gegenstand interdisziplinärer und internationaler Forschung. In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 80(2), 168-185.

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