Children's views on the road environment and safety

Lupton, Kenneth; Bayley, Mariana

doi:10.1680/tran.2006.159.1.9

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“…Another thing we discovered during the activity days was that many young people are acutely aware of their parent's poor driving skills, a discovery that is consistent with recent research on young people's safety awareness (Lupton & Bayley 2006). Citations of accidents and road incidents revealed an understanding and recognition of a variety of problems including poor parking and speeding.…”

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Streets ahead on safety: young people's participation in decision-making to address the European road injury ‘epidemic’

Kimberlee

2008

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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This paper reports on Birmingham City Council's Streets Ahead on Safety project which aims to improve road safety and quality of life in an area of multiple deprivation where 87 000 people from largely Asian, immigrant backgrounds live. A third of residents are under 16 years old and 58% self-define their religion as Muslim. The area has a poor traffic accident record leading to high levels of killed or seriously injured children. Child accidental injury in Europe is reaching 'epidemic' proportions, requiring innovative, ameliorative approaches to redress. Existing UK school-based road safety initiatives rarely extend beyond the 'tokenistic', but this project endeavoured to encourage a highway authority, engineers and road safety officers to provide local young people with opportunities to participate in decision-making in the belief that the active engagement of young service users would lead to more effective and sustainable solutions to accident prevention. Embracing the city's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), this project promoted young people's participation in decision-making around engineering plans for their local community. The project included 405 young people aged 9-11 years who conducted environmental audits, interactive road safety awareness and citizenship training, and engaged as decision-makers. Successful outcomes include increased knowledge of road and community safety issues, and the establishment of young people as stakeholders in the development of their own safety and active engagement with service providers in the development of engineering proposals. This paper highlights the potential dynamics of participation and the dilemmas it poses for relationships between service users and providers, and outlines some of the barriers confronted by young people in learning to be active participants.

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Streets ahead on safety: young people's participation in decision-making to address the European road injury ‘epidemic’

Kimberlee

2008

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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“…Transport interventions need direct involvement of young people, whether to reduce traffi c-related accidents among them or to improve their mobility and access to services. In the UK, the incorporation of young people's perceptions and views in road safety initiatives and transport planning is only just beginning (Barker, 2003;Lupton and Bayley, 2006) and in sub-Saharan Africa is at an even more preliminary stage (see Porter and Abane, 2008, and www.dur.ac.uk/child.mobility/ for details of recent and ongoing research).…”

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Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa III

Porter

2010

Progress in Development Studies

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Porter, G. (2010) 'Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa III : the challenges of meeting children and young people's mobility and transport needs. Progress report 3.', Progress in development studies., 10 (2). pp. 169-180.Further information on publisher's website: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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Effective education of essential traffic-related safety items to children in cities

Nadimi

Lori

Amiri

2024

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport

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Educating traffic knowledge and safe behaviours to children is an effective strategy for improving their traffic safety. However, due to the physical and cognitive limitations of children, implementing a proper and effective education and training programme can be complicated. It is thus vital to investigate how the effectiveness of such programmes can be improved. To this end, 200 children aged 6–9 years were asked to participate in this study. Different characteristics of the children and their parents were obtained using several forms and questionnaires. Structural equation modelling was then used to analyse the importance of contributing factors. The difference between the score of each child before and after completing the education programme was defined as their traffic educability. The results showed that children who do better in school, children who have older siblings and those who are more active have greater potential to learn traffic knowledge. Furthermore, with respect to parents, having a higher education level, driving frequently, trying to highlight the importance of traffic rules in front of children and being concerned about children's trip safety can increase children's ability in traffic education.

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Children's views on the road environment and safety

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Streets ahead on safety: young people's participation in decision-making to address the European road injury ‘epidemic’

Streets ahead on safety: young people's participation in decision-making to address the European road injury ‘epidemic’

Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa III

Effective education of essential traffic-related safety items to children in cities

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