A field survey of 14,000 school children between ages of 6 and 16 has been conducted in five Swedish, one Norwegian and three Finnish towns. The children described the road accidents they had been involved in over the past year. They drew on a map the route they had cycled the previous day and described places they thought were particularly dangerous in their neighbourhood. The starting point for the project was to develop the model for classifying the safety standards of pedestrian and bicycle routes in residential neighbourhoods as described in the TRAD safety classification. TRAD appears to have achieved its objective. An alternative model, SESAM, is suggested. SESAM stands for the Swedish terms corresponding to interaction, no steep gradients, special phase for signal-controlled bicycle crossing, separate motor traffic from pedal cycle traffic and reduced motor vehicle speed.
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