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 Danish Road Safety Council recommends that kindergartens use every day walks to teach children about traffic. They provide recommendations on how to teach children to walk safely (and travel safely by bus), as well as how to practise crossing the road safely. They also provide activities for when the Read more…
The Charter on Construction Traffic is a project of the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge. Municipalities in Flanders (Belgium) can cooperate with the construction sector to maximise the safety, liveability and accessibility of their schools’ environments during private and public construction works of buildings and roads in their neighbourhoods, by Read more…
In several European cities, children have the opportunity to go to and from school by “bike bus”, which is a group of children (accompanied by parents and other adults, depending on their age) cycling together. Similar to the motor vehicle equivalent, it follows a set route and has stops and 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…
It is important that parents continue with what has been taught at school. The Danish Road Safety Council therefore provides detailed information and guidance for parents on its website regarding walking, cycling and taking the bus. The information and guidance on walking and cycling is furthermore provided per age category. Read more…