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  • en Bicycle Training for Children         02-04-2012
    Traffic education usually focuses on theoretical aspects and the learning of traffic rules and the preparation for the bicycle examination is carried out in a protected area. But especially in urban areas the children don’t learn how to behave in real traffic environment.
  • en Close To         01-03-2012
    Young traffic offenders talk about their accidents and their consequences with students in driving schools.
  • en Road Safety Program Berlin - Speed control         27-02-2012
    In Berlin around 14.000 individuals are injured in road accidents each year. Most of the victims are children, teenagers, young adults and elderly people. The Berlin urban development department is working to provide increased safety for all road users with different measures. The projects and programmes for mobility and road safety education are important elements of their work for more road safety. They aim at considerably reducing the number of road accident casualties. In today's fast-moving society everyone wants to be mobile without being harmed. Therefore, the mastering of everyday's practices that enable this mobility is as important as learning how to read and write. This includes an up-to-date mobility and road safety education. The key aspects are enclosed in the Action Program 2010 of the Transport Division of the Federal State Berlin. Forward-looking mobility education goes far beyond traditional traffic education. Up to now mobility education focuses on primary schools and usually ends with the voluntary bicycle licence.
  • en Roadsafe cities and communes in the Rhineland         27-02-2012
    Basic principal: “Anyone killed in road traffic is one too many!” With this conviction, the state of North Rhine Westphalia in 2004 has launched a new traffic safety program. Even if the accident rate has reached the historically lowest level in North Rhine Westphalia in 2004 and the number of fatalities is at its lowest level since the introduction of statistics, a further reduction of traffic accidents - particularly those involving personal injury- is sought after. The stated goal of the state government is named "Vision Zero”, this means that no person may come to harm due to road accidents.
  • en Walk to school day         27-02-2012
    More and more children experience their everyday routes only from the windshield perspective on parental taxi. The car as transportation - even for short distances - is natural for many children. Fun bike and scooter riding, stress-free bus and train journeys where the parents have time for their children - these are all experiences that the children can undergo less often.
  • en Safe transport of load "LadeGut - Sicher ans Ziel"         27-02-2012
    Unsecured load in cars/trucks inevitably starts to move under an abrupt brake or steering application. Flying or sliding objects within the car have a 50 times higher impact as their natural self-weight. Therefore, people are again and again injured through not fixed objects – partly very seriously.
  • en Safe mobility for elderly people in Germany         27-02-2012
    The initiative „Safe mobility for elderly people“ is a year-round activity, which provides free informative sessions for car or bicyclists, pedestrians and public transport users.
  • en DriveFitnessCheck: a Road Safety project for seniors in Germany         27-02-2012
    Undoubtedly, the demographic change shows that the number of elderly road users grows more and more throughout the years. Based on an internal discussion the ADAC decided to provide elderly people the possibility to test their driving skills with a neutral driving instructor. In proposing this action, the ADAC helps doubting elderly drivers to test their driving skills in complete anonymity.
  • en KISI Catalogue         24-10-2011
    This catalogue is a collection of new road projects for children between 5-15 years old.
  • en Painted mini-roundabout to promote safety and traffic calming in Chorzów (Poland)         19-09-2011
    In 2006 the municipality of Chorzów has installed an experimental mini-roundabout with painted horizontal multilayered marks instead of a paved raised traffic island. Compliance rate and acceptance have been found to be comparable to conventional mini roundabouts but at one-third of total implementation costs.
 


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