24/08/2018

Working on Argentinian Children Safe Mobility

On August 23, Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez´s staff started in Neuquén a tour of the different cities assessed in the report “Transport of children to school and safety in school zones” the research phase of the programme "Children Safe in Traffic in Latin America".

This study included an observational study of child pedestrians in the school zone about risk behaviors, and an infrastructure survey with Star Rating for Schools, a tool developed by the International Road Assessment Programme (IRAP) that rates school zones safety from 1 to 5 stars.

In the tour, that will continue with the cities of Guaymallén (Mendoza), the capital city of Corrientes and San Salvador de Jujuy, results will be presented and workshops will be implemented on the specific road safety and child road safety challenges to be faced by each city. Relevant actions and stakeholders will be identified.

These presentations and workshops are part of the Fundación´s constant joint work with the ANSV since it took on the challenge of hosting the third FISEVI in Argentina in June, 2016. In these two years of joint work, the Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez has cooperated with the ANSV through child mobility training and advisory services.

In 2017, the ANSV designed a National Child Road Safety Program including in its public policies one of the most vulnerable road users, and in January 2018 took another important step with the regulatory decree 32/2018 that amends the Road Safety Act 24,449 extending the use of the Child Restraint System (CRS) from 4 to 10 years of age.

The Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez is part of the Ministry of Transport Friends of the Safe and Sustainable Mobility Program that aims to join efforts and carry out actions to promote a change of paradigm regarding people´s mobility through environmental, social, and economic sustainable cultural changes promoting Road Safety best practices.

* Through the programme "Children Safe in Traffic in Latin America", the Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez, with the support of the FIA Foundation, seeks to contribute to the reduction of risk factors associated to child road accidents, taking school surroundings as a starting point, by deepening knowledge about their current situation, and expanding the network at a regional level to cooperate in the creation of safe systems for children.