Objectives:

A policy paper outlining recommendations for vulnerable road users in EU countries with below average road safety records.

Methodology:

Collection of research worked into topics and road safety policy recommendations.

Key Findings:

Recommendations pertinent to safe route planning include:

• Local authorities should provide shorter and safer routes for pedestrians and cyclists by ensuring that trips are short and routes direct and that the quickest routes are also the safest.

• In order to promote safer route choice, travel time should be increased on unsafe, undesired routes and decreased on safe, desired routes.

• Safe routes to school -type schemes should be developed in order to increase the safety of children.

Themes: safe routes, travel time

Comments:

No primary findings but a recent policy paper demonstrating the role that safe route planning should have in improving road safety.

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