Road safety policy depends on a broad and collective effort from several sectors to prevent and reduce road collisions. Municipalities are important actors in the work on road safety, as employers, owners of roads, day-care centers and schools, and as actors responsible for the quality of transportation services. In order Read more…
The Czech School Inspectorate in cooperation with Road Safety Department of the Ministry of Transport prepared a survey about traffic education in primary schools in the school year 2018/2019. The survey is unique in its detail, as usually more general surveys are conducted where traffic education is only a part. Read more…
In Flanders, the compulsory regular school inspections carried out by the Department of Education include the inspection of the learning areas related to the final attainment levels (official learning goals). Since traffic safety and mobility education is part of the final attainment levels, schools can be inspected on this topic. Read more…
‘KROS: Knights for ROad Safety’ is an EU-funded ERASMUS+ programme. It focuses on open education and innovative practices in the digital age, aiming to integrate traffic safety principles and best practices at primary and secondary schools in Austria, Greece, Ireland, Poland and Spain. In addition to training activities and workshops Read more…
Every year, the Finnish Road Safety Council (Liikenneturva) offers teachers further education in traffic safety, in which teachers review the basics of traffic safety education and can try out different action models. Teachers are also offered an opportunity to network with other teachers and share good practice. The Finnish Road Read more…
The Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) promotes the use of traffic working groups at schools in Flanders. Such working groups consist of teachers and parents, with one person functioning as contact point. It is however not uncommon that a prevention advisor acts as contact person for traffic safety at Read more…
The Danish Ministry of Education recommends appointing a traffic contact teacher at all schools that teach pupils aged 6-16 years old. They are also encouraged to participate in the traffic contact teachers’ courses organised by the Danish Road Safety Council (Sikker Trafik), which are held yearly for new and ‘old’ 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…
In its National Action Plan, the Danish Road Safety Commission recommends that all schools teaching children and youngsters aged 5-15 years old (Danish primary schools) develop a traffic policy, and that they should be supported by municipalities. In order to facilitate this recommendation, the Danish Road Safety Council (Sikker Trafik) Read more…