The Swedish government and parliament are taking up new ideas on street design and encourage their development. The New Approach is to try to transform the decision taken in 1997 into the field of urban planning, road network and street design into practice from 2001. Good examples should provide a good balance between important urban qualities road safety, accessibility for all and a good environment including sustainability. In the Quality Scheme every urban quality has a number of sub-qualities. For example under the urban quality road safety there is the concept pedestrian and cyclist crossing. To have good safety for a pedestrian and cyclist crossing (PCC) the motor vehicles must pass the PCC not faster than 30 km/h (green standard), between 30 and 40 km/h you will have less good safety (yellow standard), and if the motor vehicles pass the PCC at a speed of more than 40 km/h the safety is low (red standard). The New Approach Quality Scheme has been developed at the head office of the Swedish National Road Administration, in cooperation with the regions of the SNRA, and after having consulted the Association of Local Authorities in Sweden. For the covering abstract see ITRD E126595.
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