This report summarises the results of ICTCT's workshop in Prague, October 26th-28th 1994, dealing with the situation of pedestrians in to-day's traffic. From this huge area, some central topics were chosen and dealth with in working groups: a) Sociological aspects (road user groups and their power, influence on city planning and all kinds of measures taken or not taken, and "history" of interaction between different road user groups); b) Aspects of problem locations (cities, third world countries, residential areas, different types/categories of places and road sections where there are pedestrians); c) Problem types and their appearance (life quality problems including mobility, space consumption, aesthetics, safety, modal choice; individual problems depending on the group one belongs to); and d) Questions connected to problem analysis and evaluation (both "broad evaluation" in the sence of many evaluation types on the micro level, and social and socio-economic evaluation on higher level). All problems and aspects were dealt with from the macro, meso and micro-perspective. All materials and arguments that were in some way connected to countermeasures were to be marked and summarised. Evaluation methods and recommendations were discussed in the plenum. As a result, policy goals that are considered as most important by ICTCT were listed. Recommendations for both future research and evaluation work and aspects to be stressed in future cooperation with practitioners and authorities were formulated.
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