The traffic safety of pedestrians and cyclists can be improved by means of urban planning and traffic planning, as one of the possibilities. This paper discusses the framework of these measures and activities and also the effects on the field of traffic planning. Chapter I show that it is not really possible to isolate planning measures for improving the traffic safety of cyclists and pedestrians. Changes in the traffic system have an impact on almost all aspects of our society (the social-cultural system, the economic system and the physical (planning) system). Within the traffic system, traffic safety as a rule cannot be improved without affecting other aspects (operational and quality aspects). In Chapter II the problem as a whole is divided into four parts, based on a solution selective approach to the subject (outside built-up areas, town centres, routes and networks for bicycles and mopeds, and residential areas), each with its own character and its own possible solutions or lack of solutions. Such a classification does not, of course, mean that the problems and solutions of each subdivision are unrelated. This becomes evident in Chapter I. In Chapter III a number of points for discussion are presented. This paper was presented to the 1979 Road Research Symposium on Safety of Pedestrians and Cyclists, OECD Headquarters, Paris, 14-16 May 1979.
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