Rethinking Traffic Management: Design of Optimizable Networks
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Active School Routes for All? Rethinking the Hierarchies of Traffic
Around Schools
Sanna Ojajärvi
Development Manager
Network of Finnish
Cycling Municipalities
Noljakka School / Joensuu
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Why do most of the 370 kids cycle to school?
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Metsokangas School / Oulu1000 out of 1200 children cycle year-round
Photo: Pekka Tahkola
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Why do most of the 1200 kids cycle to school?
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Snellman school / Helsinki: 400 kids walk here every morning
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Children first?
In traffic infrastructure
- priorities
- hierarchies
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Children first?
In traffic culture
- education
- practices
- regulations
- explicit and implicit norms
- human behaviour
Photo: Martti Tulenheimo
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Do you feelwelcome?
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Walking28%
Cycling32%
Motor vehicle 40 %(school bus22 %)
Mode share of school trips (age 9-16)
Liitu 2016 (3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th –graders)
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Design for cars and you get cars… and more
cars and… poor infrastructure for cycling
Photo: Martti Tulenheimo
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Children cycle. We make the neighbourhoodsmore or less safe and nice for them to cycle.
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No need to despair: design for cycling and walking!
Kirkonkylä school (910 pupils) and Kempele college (440 students) / Kempele
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And if you come by car, you’ll get a chance to walk
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Re-defining the hierarchies of traffic
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Cities and school routesfor people
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Photos: Martti Tulenheimo