Evidence for Pedestrians

The play strategy

Objectives: To establish a strategy to deliver significantly improved play spaces for children.

Author(s): Department for Children, Schools and Families, and Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Published: Department for Children, Schools and Families, and Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2008
Date: 28 Jan 2013
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Roadways (Safer route planning)

Objectives: To increase road safety through a series of exercises and activities. Roadways is a resource pack for youth leaders.

Author(s): Road Safety Scotland

Published: Road Safety Scotland, 2010
Date: 28 Jan 2013
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You are here: A guide to developing pedestrian wayfinding

Objectives: To provide guidance for councils to promote effective use of signage.

Author(s): Department of Transport, Victoria (Australia)

Published: Department of Transport, Victoria (Australia), 2011
Date: 28 Jan 2013
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Computer-based pedestrian training resource

Objectives: To produce computer based training materials for children – safe place finding being one of four key skills. The project sought to prove the validity (or otherwise) of computer training in the roadside environment, as well as successfully educating participants.

Author(s): Department for Transport

Published: Department for Transport, 2002
Date: 28 Jan 2013
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Bringing children into the social contract of road use

Objectives: To develop and then evaluate the effectiveness of a booklet for parents, which aimed to help them to improve their children’s road safety

Author(s): S. Wood, S. Thornton, E. Arundell and L. Graupner

Published: Department for Transport, 2003
Date: 28 Jan 2013
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Older pedestrians: a critical review of the literature

Objectives: To provide a critical review of research on older pedestrians and road safety; to identify groups within the older population who are most at risk, and to identify best practice interventions.

Author(s): G. Dunbar, C. Holland and E. Maylor

Published: Department for Transport, 2004
Date: 28 Jan 2013
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Reported Road Casualties Great Britain: 2010 annual report

Objectives: This report delivers statistics relating to all road RTIs reported to the police in Great Britain in 2010.

Author(s): P. Kilbey, D. Wilson, W. Huang, P. McEvoy, and A. Bhagat

Published: Department for Transport, 2011
Date: 28 Jan 2013
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The role of skills, attitudes and perceived behavioural control in the pedestrian decision making of adolescents aged 11 – 15 years

Objectives: To investigate the peak in pedestrian RTIs occurring to young adolescents. Safe route planning is incorporated as one component of a study to identify whether the target group have the skills to deal with complex traffic environments.

Author(s): A. Tolmie, J. Thomson, R. O’Conno, H. Foot, E. Karagiannidou, M. Banks, C. O’Donnell and P. Sarvary

Published: Department for Transport, 2006
Date: 28 Jan 2013
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Evaluation of the national child pedestrian training pilot projects

Objectives: To establish the impact of the National child pedestrian training pilot projects (‘Kerbcraft’) on children’s road safety. To identify the most successful schemes and elements of schemes.

Author(s): K. Whelan, E. Towner, G. Errington and J. Powell

Published: Department for Transport, 2008
Date: 28 Jan 2013
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Delivery of local road safety

An evaluation of local road safety in Great Britain: to evaluate the different plans and strategies; to asses what is being delivered and to identify and share areas of best practice.