For many years, in Italy, safety has not been considered as a priority and this can be proved by the lack of an appropriate legal and regulatory framework up to the second half of the '90s. Until this period, the only regulatory utilities in force were the 1959 National Highway Code - a set of laws for improving traffic conditions with no special regard to pedestrian problems and updated only in 1992 - and some series of prescriptions for infrastructure design not compulsory up to their 2001 edition. The first real step towards an increase of safety standards is the 1995 Urban Traffic Plan decree n 146/24.6.95 by Ministry of Public Works (PUT), compulsory for all municipalities with over 30,000 inhabitants. Nevertheless, the national accident rate has been growing steadily. In 2000, 211,941 accidents occurred involving persons. 6,410 were killed (13.2% were pedestrians) and 301,559 were injured (5.6% were pedestrians). About 75 % of accidents occurred in urban areas. Elderly are the most exposed: in 2000, 53% of all pedestrian fatalities involved persons aged over 65; 9.5% involved persons aged under 24 (2001 ISTAT Data). The average social cost for this problem has been estimated at about 22 million Euros per year. Both projects will be soon fully operative: for what concerns Genoa, implementations will start from those districts where safety situations have been considered worse. In Bologna first outcomes from the Pilot Project area are pushing the Municipality to implement such a test in other districts of the city. Both experiences are case studies of the research "Widespread interventions in urban areas for the creation of best solutions for the pedestrian mobility", funded by the Ministry of the Education and University and run by DITS - Department of Hydraulic Transportation and Roads, University "La Sapienza", of Rome. DITS is in charge of assessing the results of the implementation of two pedestrian paths in the case study cities. As a sample of the work in progress is reported in Appendix a form for counting pedestrian data to be used in the next surveys in Bologna.
Two Italian pilot projects to increase pedestrian safety / DI MASCIO, Paola; Corazza, MARIA VITTORIA. - ELETTRONICO. - (2003). (Intervento presentato al convegno XXIInd PIARC World Road Congress tenutosi a Durban, South Africa nel 19 - 25 ottobre 2003).
Two Italian pilot projects to increase pedestrian safety
DI MASCIO, Paola;CORAZZA, MARIA VITTORIA
2003
Abstract
For many years, in Italy, safety has not been considered as a priority and this can be proved by the lack of an appropriate legal and regulatory framework up to the second half of the '90s. Until this period, the only regulatory utilities in force were the 1959 National Highway Code - a set of laws for improving traffic conditions with no special regard to pedestrian problems and updated only in 1992 - and some series of prescriptions for infrastructure design not compulsory up to their 2001 edition. The first real step towards an increase of safety standards is the 1995 Urban Traffic Plan decree n 146/24.6.95 by Ministry of Public Works (PUT), compulsory for all municipalities with over 30,000 inhabitants. Nevertheless, the national accident rate has been growing steadily. In 2000, 211,941 accidents occurred involving persons. 6,410 were killed (13.2% were pedestrians) and 301,559 were injured (5.6% were pedestrians). About 75 % of accidents occurred in urban areas. Elderly are the most exposed: in 2000, 53% of all pedestrian fatalities involved persons aged over 65; 9.5% involved persons aged under 24 (2001 ISTAT Data). The average social cost for this problem has been estimated at about 22 million Euros per year. Both projects will be soon fully operative: for what concerns Genoa, implementations will start from those districts where safety situations have been considered worse. In Bologna first outcomes from the Pilot Project area are pushing the Municipality to implement such a test in other districts of the city. Both experiences are case studies of the research "Widespread interventions in urban areas for the creation of best solutions for the pedestrian mobility", funded by the Ministry of the Education and University and run by DITS - Department of Hydraulic Transportation and Roads, University "La Sapienza", of Rome. DITS is in charge of assessing the results of the implementation of two pedestrian paths in the case study cities. As a sample of the work in progress is reported in Appendix a form for counting pedestrian data to be used in the next surveys in Bologna.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
