PROVIDER is a 2 year EU-funded project to improve energy use on school trips.
Kids and Young People: An important target group for Mobility Management
Young people are a very important target group for changing mobility modes, as mobility attitudes are deeply influenced by experiences at an early age. Furthermore, accompanying children and young people has a significant impact on the mobility behaviour of adults.
Traffic Education Needs a Boost from Mobility Management
Experience shows that children and young people are generally bored by traffic related issues because it reminds them of learning rules or having to do safety training. Getting a driving-licence and using a car is a very important aim that children, especially teenagers, want to achieve upon reaching adulthood. Most children and adolescents don't usually learn how to use alternative transport modes, excluding bikes, and the advantages of taking sustainable transport from their parents or in school. In fact, parents accompanying their children in cars is the trip type that is increasing the most.
But: Today's children are tomorrow's adult traffic participants and individual mobility behaviour is created at a very early age.
Road safety education therefore needs a boost from mobility education to show students and teachers alike that using alternative modes is fun and at the same time good for the environment.
The joy of developing and acheiving sustainable transport, of co-creating the future shall replace the lifted finger and fear of punishment.
European Network
The PROVIDER project will establish a continuously updated European web platform - Schoolway. This will provide on-line services, exchange of experiences, educational and planning instruments about youth mobility management.
A network of schools, youth organisations, municipalities and other stakeholders in energy efficient mobility education will be created and promoted through a wide education campaign.
Schoolway Website
Member schools can use the site to find tools for an integrative mobility education model, including:
European Partners
Ökoinstitut Südtirol / Alto Adige (Coordination)
Forschungsgesellschaft Mobilität - Austrian Mobility Research
Sustrans - Safe Routes to Schools
Dep. Políticas e Sistemas de Transporte - TIS.PT
FIT Consulting srl
ILS - Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
RAEE - Rhônalpénergie-Environnement
FOLOS Consulting
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Forschungsgesellschaft Mobilität Austrian Mobility Research - FGM-AMOR
RAEE - Rhônalpénergie-Environnement
Ökoinstitut Südtirol / Alto Adige
TIS.PT Dep. Políticas e Sistemas de Transporte
Sustrans - Safe Routes to Schools National Cycle Network Centre
