La rénovation urbaine comme occasion de réduire les inégalités face à la sécurité des déplacements

Recent research shows that road traffic accidents occur more often in deprived neighbourhoods than in other areas. The factors proposed are the small proportion of recreation areas, the high traffic level and the lack of safe crosswalks. Security could thus be improved by redeveloping the urban fabr...

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Main Author: Sylvanie Godillon
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Language:English
Published: Université Lille 1 2012-05-01
Series:Territoire en Mouvement
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/tem/1639
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description Recent research shows that road traffic accidents occur more often in deprived neighbourhoods than in other areas. The factors proposed are the small proportion of recreation areas, the high traffic level and the lack of safe crosswalks. Security could thus be improved by redeveloping the urban fabric. As parts of national urban renewal programs, urban projects impact on public spaces and traffic in the neighbourhoods. Are the projects managers aware of the way they influence traffic safety ?This paper focuses on the link between traffic safety and urban renewal projects, and on the issue of a possible contradiction between them.The flexibility of the local local authorities in Germany makes it useful to compare different ways of coordinating urban renewal with traffic safety. Coordination mechanisms are analyzed at two different scales : the national elaboration of guidelines, and the implementation of local projects.Two main differences can be identified. First, in Germany both traffic safety policies and urban projects aim at making the traffic bypass the neighbourhood, whereas the will to make the traffic cross neighbourhoods often prevails in France. Second,traffic safety experts in Germany play a part in the determining of urban projects, whereas they intervene at the stage of implementation in France.Urban renewal is an opportunity to integrate traffic safety issues into neighbourhoods’ redevelopment. Local actors are aware of this opportunity and ask for this process, but in France it remains difficult to understand, given that traffic safety experts have gotten involved in the management of urban renewal projects much later than in Germany.urban renewal, urban project, traffic safety, France, Germany
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spelling doaj-art-0f8ef5e6337c4881b721c9ba8ff939342024-12-09T15:13:18ZengUniversité Lille 1Territoire en Mouvement1950-56982012-05-011316317610.4000/tem.1639La rénovation urbaine comme occasion de réduire les inégalités face à la sécurité des déplacementsSylvanie GodillonRecent research shows that road traffic accidents occur more often in deprived neighbourhoods than in other areas. The factors proposed are the small proportion of recreation areas, the high traffic level and the lack of safe crosswalks. Security could thus be improved by redeveloping the urban fabric. As parts of national urban renewal programs, urban projects impact on public spaces and traffic in the neighbourhoods. Are the projects managers aware of the way they influence traffic safety ?This paper focuses on the link between traffic safety and urban renewal projects, and on the issue of a possible contradiction between them.The flexibility of the local local authorities in Germany makes it useful to compare different ways of coordinating urban renewal with traffic safety. Coordination mechanisms are analyzed at two different scales : the national elaboration of guidelines, and the implementation of local projects.Two main differences can be identified. First, in Germany both traffic safety policies and urban projects aim at making the traffic bypass the neighbourhood, whereas the will to make the traffic cross neighbourhoods often prevails in France. Second,traffic safety experts in Germany play a part in the determining of urban projects, whereas they intervene at the stage of implementation in France.Urban renewal is an opportunity to integrate traffic safety issues into neighbourhoods’ redevelopment. Local actors are aware of this opportunity and ask for this process, but in France it remains difficult to understand, given that traffic safety experts have gotten involved in the management of urban renewal projects much later than in Germany.urban renewal, urban project, traffic safety, France, Germanyhttps://journals.openedition.org/tem/1639projet urbainFrancerénovation urbainesécurité routièreAllemagne
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La rénovation urbaine comme occasion de réduire les inégalités face à la sécurité des déplacements
Territoire en Mouvement
projet urbain
France
rénovation urbaine
sécurité routière
Allemagne
title La rénovation urbaine comme occasion de réduire les inégalités face à la sécurité des déplacements
title_full La rénovation urbaine comme occasion de réduire les inégalités face à la sécurité des déplacements
title_fullStr La rénovation urbaine comme occasion de réduire les inégalités face à la sécurité des déplacements
title_full_unstemmed La rénovation urbaine comme occasion de réduire les inégalités face à la sécurité des déplacements
title_short La rénovation urbaine comme occasion de réduire les inégalités face à la sécurité des déplacements
title_sort la renovation urbaine comme occasion de reduire les inegalites face a la securite des deplacements
topic projet urbain
France
rénovation urbaine
sécurité routière
Allemagne
url https://journals.openedition.org/tem/1639
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