Kelleher, Luke and Smyth, Austin (2008) Increasing school
choice: sustainability paradox. In: Transportation Research
Board 87th Annual Meeting, 13 - 17 Jan 2008, Washington DC. Full
text not available from this repository. Official URL:
http://pubsindex.trb.org/document/view/multi.asp?p... The UK
government wants school travel to be safer, healthier and more
environmentally friendly-with more pupils walking and cycling.
In addition in 2005, it published the 14-19 Education and Skills
White Paper. One of the key aims of the paper was to improve
school choice for all pupils. This is to be achieved by giving
more choice to disadvantaged children; and promoting fair
admissions in order to give parents access to a wider range of
schools. Allowing parents to look further than their local
catchment area school is likely to result in greater numbers of
children traveling longer distances. Therefore, as this paper
illustrates, if school choice is really to be open to all,
school transport must be included as part of