On July 27-28, 2016, a two-day workshop on in-depth research on road safety will be held in Ivano-Frankivsk as part of the promotion of the "Vision Zero" vision. In a short time, activists and specialists will conduct a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk on the subject of safe movement. They will collect and analyze all possible information, quantitative and qualitative, on the basis of which a conceptual vision of the "Zero Mortality Strategy" will be developed.
The objects of work of urban researchers will be: (1) Behavior of city residents in road traffic (motorists, pedestrians, cyclists); (2) Infrastructure facilities that ensure road safety (traffic lights, crossings, intersections, signs, markings, bicycle infrastructure, etc.); (3) Data on accidents, injuries and deaths in road traffic (statistics, geolocation, identification of patterns and analysis of risk factors).
All interested persons working on the topic of urban mobility as professionals or activists, as well as people with related interests: urbanists, sociologists, journalists, students are invited to participate in the event. Our event is supported and actively participated by the Municipality of Ivano-Frankivsk, in particular the Department of Communal Services and the Department of Transport, as well as the Patrol Police Department in Ivano-Frankivsk. Why is this important? Road traffic is one of the serious problems of any city in Ukraine. In 2015, 198 people were hit by a tram in Ivano-Frankivsk and 13 died as a result of road accidents. In the first half of 2016, the number of deaths has already reached 6 people, and the number of injured has reached 102.
More than half of all those who suffer in road accidents are people who did not use a car at all (pedestrians and cyclists). At the same time, there are already hundreds of cities in the European Union that have set a goal and successfully achieved “Vision Zero” - zero road deaths. Ivano-Frankivsk, thus, may become the first city in Ukraine to develop and then implement a “Zero Mortality Strategy”. Our workshop should lay a reliable scientifically based foundation for this strategy and become a progressive example for other cities in Ukraine. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1123085577751215/ Coordinator contacts: Viktor Zagreba, 067 442 14 94, viktor@zagreba.com.