Armouti I., Antoniou C., Yannis G., “Safety Practices of Nursery School Travel: Preliminary Results from Ilioupoli”, Proceedings of the 6th Pan-hellenic Road Safety Conference, Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, March 2015.

A structured questionnaire exploring the traffic safety of preschool children during their everyday commute to

the nursery school, the child-parent interaction and the parent’s behaviour and knowledge towards traffic safety, was completed for 286 children by 247 volunteer parents, having at least one child attending a municipality nursery school. Results show that children travel to the nursery school, mainly as car occupants accompanied by their mother. 18% of the respondents always use a child restraint system (CRS). Most children, who always use car seats while travelling by car, have highly educated mothers (88%). 27% of respondents specify that they always wear seatbelt, when accompanying their child by car.

The aim of this research is to identify the mechanisms, which link the socio–economic status of the family (notthe area), with the level of traffic safety of preschool children. The study is piloted in the suburb of Ilioupoli,Athens, Greece.A structured questionnaire exploring the traffic safety of preschool children during their everyday commute tothe nursery school, the child-parent interaction and the parent’s behaviour and knowledge towards traffic safety,was completed for 286 children by 247 volunteer parents, having at least one child attending a municipalitynursery school.Results show that children travel to the nursery school, mainly as car occupants accompanied by their mother.18% of the respondents always use a child restraint system (CRS). Most children, who always use car seatswhile travelling by car, have highly educated mothers (88%). 27% of respondents specify that they always wearseatbelt, when accompanying their child by car.