Projects financed by the Commission :: Project file
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PROMISING
Promotion of mobility and safety of vulnerable road users
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| Domain | Training, education and campaigns |
| Duration | from 07/1998 until 01/2001 |
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PROMISING: planning mobility and safety
The road safety of vulnerable road users would greatly benefit from measures that take both mobility and safety criteria into account. These measures are (sometimes highly) cost-beneficial. This conclusion is drawn in the European research project PROMISING, which was commissioned by the European Union. It was co-ordinated by the SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research.
The PROMISING project aimed at developing measures that reduce the risk of injury to vulnerable and young road users as much as possible in a non-restrictive way. That is to say that safety and mobility must be improved together; the improvement of safety should not lead to reduced mobility. In the current situation in Europe, the mobility needs of vulnerable road users hardly receive any priority in traffic and transport planning. As a consequence, safety policies often have a curative approach, which restricts the mobility of these vulnerable road users. PROMISING focused on four groups of such vulnerable road users: pedestrians, cyclists, motorised two-wheelers (i.e. motorcyclists and mopedists) and young car drivers.
The differences between European countries in their transport modes were taken into account in this project.
