Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux

Type de document

OUVRAGE SCIENTIFIQUE (OS)

Langue

anglais

Auteur

FLEURY ; BONANOMY ; CORAZZA ; HANOCQ ; LAURSEN ; MACKIE ; MARTINCIGH ; MONHEIM ; MOHNEIM ; PASANEN ; PEZZAGNO ; SANZ ; SAUTER ; TIRA

Résumé / Abstract

The Cost action 'town and infrastructure planning for safety and urban quality for pedestrians' concerns the co-ordination of national research projects in urban civil engineering. The main objective is to promote better safety and urban quality for pedestrians, particularly (but not only) for citizens with special needs - children, the elderly and the handicapped - and to suggest planning and maintenance techniques aimed at improving urban quality. The work of civil engineers, traffic engineers, urbanists, architects and townscape planners, but also sociologists is integrated. The working group includes researchers/specialists from the various countries interested in this theme. During the last 3 years, we firstly defined the scope of work and then dealt with the transversal aspects to draw up a reading grid. The presentations of cases structured according to this grid have then been possible. This type of approach did not completely exhaust the subject but provided a way of using partial knowledge that is not explicit but which nevertheless exists. We focused our debate on questions which although ever-present and essential in planning, are more often referred to as non-essential and anecdotal. This publication dealing with implementation procedures for an urban design integrating pedestrian safety and urban quality has been drawn up in two sections. A first section presents the situation in each country using the reading grid, drawn up during the cost action meetings, to facilitate comparison: management level. Specificity of local management, legal aspects, policy and priorities at the national level, definition of an integrated policy, place of values in local institutions , the stakeholders, funding, impediments. A second thematic section deals with the following subjects: urban development, strategies for the promotion of pedestrians, traffic calming, car free strategies, parking management, speed management, urban network modelling, urban quality and design, mobility plans, institutional obstacles. The document concludes with a transversal reading of the national experiences, leading to conclusions and recommendations for improving policy making and implementation.

Editeur

OFFICE DES PUBLICATIONS OFFICIELLES DES COMMUNAUTES EUROPEENNES