School commuting, carbon footprint and sociospatial implications: evidence from French pupils[Mobilité scolaire quotidienne, empreinte carbone et enjeux sociospatiaux : le cas des collégiens girondins]

Rising several issues, home-to-school mobility provides an international literature from various fields. Medical disciplines warn of a decline in active travelling as a major public health problem. Social sciences study this mobility in the light of its externalities, the role it plays in the children's quality of life and its influence on their behaviour as adults. Nevertheless, the French literature's exploration of the subject remains timid. This research relies on a survey conducted in Gironde, a French department, questioning pupils of the French "college" (11 – 15 years old) in the public sector about their home-to-school mobility. We begin by calculating the greenhouse gases emitted by these trips. We then seek to better understand the links between these emissions and mobility behaviours with three variables commonly central to adult mobility and useful to planners aiming to promote sustainable mobility: income, density, and gender.