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Life Long Learning to Achieve Pedestrian Priority and Safety in Antalya City Centre

Pedestrians are among the unprotected road users who interact with traffic of high speed. This makes them vulnerable and they suffer the most severe consequences of accidents. In big cities like Antalya the safety of roads can be improved. The vocational trainings and traffic regulations are two of the fields that require rigorous attention. Linking policy to practice, traffic safety has to be considered not only as technical or engineering problems, but also with its social, educational and behavioral aspects. The objective of the Life Long Learning to Achieve Pedestrian Priority and Safety in Big Cities (APPSA) Proposal is to implement the EU standards for pedestrian priority in big cities, showing the applicability of these standards in pilot areas by dissemination activities. It aims to provide pedestrian safety by creating a learning model that will teach the traffic culture to pedestrians and pedestrian culture to drivers through vocational trainings. To achieve the objectives of the proposal, the outputs of the “Modernizing the Professional Capabilities of Driving Instructors – Future Facilitators of Lifelong Traffic Safety Learning (ProCadrin)” project will be transferred and adopted from Finland. These programs developed within the ProCadrin project will be adopted to train students and candidate drivers and will guide to the driving instructors, teachers and traffic police. Training materials will be developed and pedestrian priority zones will be established in areas of greatest pedestrian activity; a “street” in city centre with road and pavement adjustments for persons with disabilities, the “old city” where circulation of tourist from EU countries is high, and the “University campus”. Warning signs will be posted in all pilot zones and the traffic policemen, security and park officers working at these areas to control the traffic will be trained to achieve pedestrian priority through promoting awareness. The practice will be exploited to other neighboring areas from pilot zones.

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