Children’s travel behaviour vary from that of other age cohorts due to security challenges.
In most cases, they are often accompanied by parents or older adults during travel. Hence, this
study examined the travel pattern of children in varying residential density zones. The multi-stage
sampling technique was adopted for the study; the residential zone was stratified into three zones
and political wards were randomly selected from each stratum. Thereafter, the children were
systematically selected from 1 out of every 20 building which represents 5% of respondents in the
study area. The study revealed that variations exist in the socio-economic characteristics of children
in the different residential zones, and mean trip frequency for the respondents were 1.64, 1.75 and
2.56 for children in the core, transition and periphery zones respectively. The result of the stepwise
regression analysis also revealed that three variables (cars in the household, licensed driver and
income of respondents) were significant at influencing trip frequency in the core, four variables
which are income of household head, income of respondents, cars in the household and travel cost
were significant in the transition while the number of cars in the household, income of respondents
and level of education of household head were significant variables influencing trip frequency of
children in the periphery zone. We concluded that children’s travel varies across the zones, and
depend largely on their parents and dependants.