The purpose of this study was to clarify how guardians place small children on escalators when children and guardians ride on escalators together and how many inappropriate behaviors are done by the guardians.

  A group of a preschool child and guardian(s) counts as one case, and 13 research at 8 locations (each research time is 1 hour, in total 13 hours), a total of 590 cases using an escalator installed at that location were analyzed.

  Regarding the way preschool children and guardians use escalators, we classified them into 15 categories. About 20% of guardians have inappropriate manners including “An adult carries a child on his shoulders”, “A child is in a stroller”, “Both an adult and a child walk”, when they get on escalators with children. 

Key Words : Escalator, Inappropriate Behaviors, Children, Guardian