The Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) guides and inspires schools in Flanders and Brussels (Belgium) to make their surroundings and cycle routes to them, safer. The aim is to have more children go to school by bike – and fewer by car. VSV uses the measures included in their Read more…
Recognising that many children are dropped off and picked up at schools by car, the Brussels Region motivates schools and kindergartens to adopt a school mobility plan to encourage children and their parents as well as teachers and school personnel to use the active modes instead, with a focus on Read more…
The Dutch website schoolroute.nl allows pupils from several provinces to register their route from home to school using Google Maps. It also allows the pupils to indicate troublesome or hazardous locations on the route and asks them several questions about these locations. Teachers can subsequently base their road safety lessons Read more…
Telraam (Dutch for abacus, as well as a play on words on ‘count’ (tel) and ‘window’ (raam)) is a device that can be mounted to windows and that automatically counts how many pedestrians, cyclists, cars and heavy vehicles are moving through the street. The data collected is then made publicly Read more…
The Heart Zone Project “Hjertesone” (Norwegian for Heart Zone, in the meaning of a safe and healthy zone) is a national initiative and a collaboration between the Norwegian Council for Road Safety (the project manager), the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, the Directorate of Health, the police, the Cyclists’ Association, the Read more…
School streets are car-free areas outside schools. Roads are closed to vehicles or they have severely restricted access, normally just for a short period at the start and end of the school day. Some school streets are permanently car-free. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and motivated by the need Read more…
The EU-funded Partnerships for Science Education (PAFSE) project looked at science education as a method to provide the knowledge, tools and skills necessary to make informed decisions on public health challenges. The project aims to involve pupils aged 12 to 15 years old in identifying public health challenges in their Read more…
The German Federal Highway Institute BASt offers a guideline which includes best practice examples for the development of safe routes to school plans. The guideline is directed to parents as well as school managers and teachers, and contains useful advice related to the process of developing, implementing and evaluating safe Read more…
Since 2016, a new Ordinance has been enacted that requires every school, kindergarten and youth centre for personal growth and development in the country to appoint its own Road Safety Committee. This Committee has to support the head teacher in: The committees have to develop road safety yearly plans, which Read more…
To support systematic and long-term traffic safety education, a school-specific traffic safety plan is drawn up. To achieve the best results, the Finnish Road Safety Council (Liikenneturva) recommends schools pay attention to the following topics: a safe traffic environment that is evaluated on the basis of the capabilities and needs Read more…