Road safety through less traffic : how do we get real change in travel choices ? Paper presented at the 4th biennial Australasian traffic education conference, Canberra, February 14, 1992.

This paper is a response to queries about the practicality and effects of urban travel restraint (sometimes described as `traffic calming' at the city-wide level), and particularly its potential as a road safety measure. The gap between desire and reality is stressed; particular difficulties stem from the nature of urban travel and the limited success to date of travel restraint measures. The behavioural implications of a range of traffic calming measures, including city-wide travel changes, are discussed. It is concluded that the achievement of a state of traffic calming at its fullest would require a revolutionary change in social attitude. Traffic educators play a role in that. (A).