The following summing up is made of recommendations for a safe design: (1) collaborate from an early stage and constantly with the urban and traffic planner; (2) always look first for conflict-free solutions; (3) 30 km/h is the absolute maximum in areas where children circulate in or stay; (4) ensure that the children's destinations are within the residential area; (5) provide for a transparent road layout, good visibility between pavement and road is of crucial importance; (6) provide for a socially safe and differentiated system in which the measures adopted for material applied, design and ambience fit the environment; (7) design safe school routes and other children's routes; (8) design safe crossings on 30 km/h-roads and district access roads; and (9) create a network of qualitatively good and attractive residential areas. Traffic education for children needs not only to devote attention to the learning of regulations or putting them into practice, but also to teach strategies for hazardous situations. Traffic education for adults must be directed to expanding knowledge of the anticipated behaviour of children. Adults often overestimate children's capacities.(A) For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD no 207828. The reprints are also available at the web - http://www.vti.se/pdf/reports/K18APart1.pdf ; http://www.vti.se/pdf/reports/K18APart2.pdf and http://www.vti.se/pdf/reports/K18APart3.pdf.
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