road safety training

Antony J Plumbe a.j.plumbe at Bradford.ac.uk
Fri Feb 25 03:30:44 JST 2000


Hello Jo,

See "Towards Safer Roads in Developing Countries; A Guide for Planners 
and Engineers" written by the Ross Silcock Partnership and two members 
of the Overseas Unit at the Transport and Road Research Laboratory and 
distributed by DfID. The persons who can help you on a commercial basis 
at the TRL is Andrew Downing or Brian Hills or Chris Bageley or Ivor 
Sayer.

Almost all UK local authorities have school child safety units with 
suitable materials for children here.

Best wishes.

Tony Plumbe
 
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:40:16 -0800 leyland <LEYLAND at maf.org> wrote:

>      Dear All
>      
>      I am working with a road maintenance project in Western Uganda that is 
>      assisting the Ministry of Works to rehabilitate the main gravel road 
>      network.  There is a community participation component within the 
>      project which includes a road safety programme.  With the improvement 
>      of the roads, there is a risk that the number and severity of 
>      accidents could increase so we are also trying to tackle road user 
>      behaviour within the project.
>      
>      We are carrying out a training programme for teachers from schools 
>      near the roads, using flipcharts that we have produced, to improve 
>      children's safety and behaviour on the roads.  We are also 
>      constructing footpaths along some of the key sections of the gravel 
>      roads that are used by many pedestrians e.g. between trading centres 
>      and schools or entry stretches to district towns etc.
>      
>      Now we are looking to develop a road safety training programme with 
>      the Police and the National Road Safety Council for public transport 
>      operators in the project area, primarily the 'taxi' (minibus) drivers, 
>      'machara' (motorcycle) operators and the 'boda boda' (bicycle) 
>      operators.  We are meeting with the transporter associations and 
>      relevant parties to work out with them what their training needs are 
>      and develop the programme and training materials as necessary.  
>      
>      However, we are interested to find out what training resources and 
>      materials are currently available and to learn from other relevant 
>      experiences.  Does anyone have, or know of, relevant training 
>      materials or documentation that we could access?
>      
>      Please let me know.  Thanks
>      
>      Jo Leyland
>      Western Uganda Road Maintenance Capacity Building Project
>      
>      email: leyland at maf.org 

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