Project

Full project title: Knowledge transfer from the founders of Vision Zero to new generations, on the three dimensions ethics, responsibility, and solutions

It will soon be 30 years since the birth of Vision Zero and road safety became something everybody working with traffic and urban planning was expected to have knowledge of. A generational change is now taking place where the founders of Vision Zero are planning their retirement and many of those who are starting their working lives lack the knowledge that formed the basis for the changed way of thinking about traffic and road safety. Today, when road safety is a part of the Agenda 2030, it is also vital to work with a holistic approach and understand in which ways road safety is important and a driving force in the sustainability work. To just follow guidelines and requirements someone else has developed without understanding the background to them leads to priorities and deviations being made suboptimally. For example, to achieve an increased proportion of active travel, the conditions for pedestrians and cyclists must also be safe.

The purpose of this pre-study is to identify the knowledge gap that has been found in several municipal organizations, define what of new research and new practice needs to be included and review how the knowledge most easily reaches those who need it. The target group is traffic and community planners as well as procurers in public organizations.

This pre-study will study whether there is a need for a new approach in how traffic safety related knowledge is communicated and what this need is.