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TOWN AND INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING FOR SAFETY AND URBAN QUALITY FOR PEDESTRIANS

Objective

The main objective is to promote better safety and urban quality for pedestrians, particularly (but not only) for citizens with special needs - children, the elderly and the handicapped - and to suggest planning and maintenance techniques aimed at improving urban quality.

The overall goal is to evaluate the influence of the different infrastructure types and action strategies, comparing the results of the empirical research, and to decide on recommendations, based on the experience of 10 to 20 European cities, for planning urban infrastructures and strategies to increase safety and urban quality for pedestrians Data-gathering programmes, carried out in different European cities, will provide the opportunity to work out common definitions and standards. Data will also allow the measurement and comparison of the success of different strategies.

Research will start with the broadest scope, trying to estimate (however approximately) the relative importance of all possible risks or safety questions in pedestrian traffic (and light wheeled traffic, namely cycling) and then make more accurate studies in any of the more specific
fields. Subjects will be analysed in different cases that represent the situation in medium-sized European towns.

Current status

The first MC meeting was held in Brussels on 2 October 1996. At the time of writing, 9 countries have signed the MoU, with Norway and Sweden just about to sign.

The first phase of the Action will concern the development of basic knowledge and standardisation of research methods and definitions.

In the second phase, empirical research in the different participating countries will be initiated based on case studies. Several Working Groups will be set up and will operate during this phase.

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Coordinator

Ingenieurburo Verkehrsplanung
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Olgastrasse 4
8001 Zurich
Switzerland

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