The role of parents in informal traffic education; Questionnaire study of parents' knowledge, needs and motivation. Informal traffic education refers to the informal learning process in which road users continuously learn of their own experiences and the examples set by others in real life. Informal traffic education is important because learning to behave safely in traffic is very time demanding and schools do not have enough time or recources to spend on formal traffic education. To learn more on how to make better use of the informal learning process, a study was conducted into the possible role parents can play. Indeed, parents are often present when their children take part in traffic and they can therefore use these moments to teach their children the ropes about traffic and give them the right example. That is why insight into parents' knowledge, questions, and motivation is important. Therefore, a questionnaire study was carried out in which parents were asked what they already know about the development and traffic participation of their child, what else they would like to know, and whether and how they would like to be approached with new information and means.
Abstract