To our knowledge, only one previous effort (Wilson et al, 2007) explicitly studied school travel in light of school choice. There, we found that school choice led to longer school commute distances (because children attend schools across the district rather than in their neighborhood) and reduced levels of walking and bicycling to school (because longer commutes are less amenable to walking or bicycling). The current study strengthens and expands earlier survey parents to determine attitudes that affect school choice and school travel mode. Rather than rely on national data, we analyze differences at the local level between an urban and a suburban school district and investigate how.
