Education and communication issues for pedestrians. Results from the OECD group

Abstract

International audience ; In communities across the world, there is a growing need and responsibility to provide options that give people the opportunity to walk; to walk more often, to walk to more places, and to feel safe and happy while doing so. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has created a working group on "pedestrian safety, urban space and health (PUSH)" in 2008. This group has worked on means that could be used by national governments to improve pedestrians' safety and well-being in urban space. Communication on walking and education for walking are then needed to increase number of people who safe walk in urban space. Aim of this paper is to expose strategies and content of communication and education on walking. Targets and contents for communication and education have been defined and best practices in OECD countries have been collected (professional, road users, pedestrians - especially younger and older ones -). The main results proved in the paper refer to the figures of several topics and targets for communication and education and to the solutions implemented to improve pedestrian communication and education in several OECD Countries.