SUNFLOWER+6. Southern Group. Case Study on Pedestrians

Abstract

The SUNflower+6 project is based on a comparative study regarding road safety in nine countries and one autonomous region from the EU. These countries are divided into three groups: - “Northern” (SUN) group: Sweden, United Kingdom and The Netherlands; - “Southern” group: Portugal, Greece, Spain and Catalonia (Autonomous Region of Spain) - “Central” group: Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia The work of the “Southern” group is carried out by the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil - LNEC (Portugal), SGI – TRADEMCO (Greece), Servei Català de Trànsit - SCT and DSD (Catalonia), and Dirección General de Tráfico – DGT (Spain). Besides their input for the components of the project which are common to all the countries, they are responsible for the development of comparative studies at the group level, namely as regards seven selected case studies. For each of these studies a leading partner of the group was appointed, as follows: - drinking and driving (Greece); - seat belts (Catalonia); - pedestrians (Portugal); - powered two-wheelers (Spain) - novice drivers (Catalonia); - speed (Greece). The aim of this document is to report on the “pedestrians” case study for the “Southern” group. Its structure is similar to the one adopted by the SUN group in its draft report on the same case study.