Abstract
Elementary school, as criteria of a friendly city, should beavailable inside a neighborhood unit (NU). There is only one out of 109NU in Surakarta City that does not have an elementary school. However,67% of the people of Surakarta choose elementary schools outside theirNU. They use various modes of transportation because their school is outof reach for walking. Nevertheless, there are people who do not walk eventhough they are in their NU. This study aims to determine the factors thatinfluence the modal choice in accessing schools in the city of Surakarta. This research used a quantitative research method with multinomiallogistic regression analysis to analyze 14 factors obtained from thetheoretical review. The result shows that there are six factors that influencethe modal choice to access elementary school, i.e. family member; carownership; householder occupation; time of trip made; road separator; andhouseholder age.
Highlights
The city of Surakarta has been awarded as Child-friendly City since 2011
Elementary School as children's social facilities should be available inside a Neighborhood Unit (NU), considering the distance of children walking capabilities [1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 15]
The data of these factors were collected through 100 questionnaires distributed to elementary school students in each NU of Surakarta
Summary
Until 2017, Surakarta still cannot reach the highest level of the child-friendly city in Indonesia. It becomes the basis for analyzing various aspects in supporting Surakarta City as Childfriendly City. Based on previous research [5], it is known that 67% of children in Surakarta attended elementary school outside their NU. It means that they use transportation modal to access the elementary school because of the distance that is too far to reach by walking
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