Funded by the Road Safety Trust, Sustrans has worked with Birmingham City Council to monitor two Car Free School Street sites. This webinar presents the findings of their report “School Streets: Road Safety and Traffic Displacement.”

This event is aimed at Scotland local authorities only.

A school street is a time road closure outside of a school, happening during the school run. Schemes are often launched because safety has become an issue for those walking or wheeling to school. Traffic displacement is the cause of moving vehicles from an area to a neighbouring road. This is common concern raised by residents when a scheme is announced.

Two Car Free School Streets in Birmingham were monitored by Sustrans using several measures. This included automatic traffic counters, video monitoring and perception surveys.

This session will present the Technical Report with the findings presented by Sustrans Research and Monitoring colleagues. A Practitioners Briefing Note has also been produced, aimed at local authorities highlighting best practice of school streets. The Briefing Note has been led from the experiences of Sustrans officers across the UK and presented by the Sustrans Urbanism colleague.

Speakers will include:

Anjali Badloe (Evaluation Manager, Sustrans)

Jenny Babey (Project Coordinator, UK Liveable Streets, Sustrans)

Dr Adrian Davis (Professor of Transport & Health, Edinburgh Napier University)

The webinar will be hosted on Microsoft Teams, and the link will be sent to you in a confirmation email when you have signed up.

Agenda

2.00 Arrivals and introduction. We will be starting the talks promptly at 5minutes past.

2.05 Findings of the report Anjali and/or Matt from Sustrans

2.20 Literature Review by Adrian Davis.

2.35 Best practice of School Streets, Jenny from Sustrans

2.50 Q&A

3.15 Close.

We aim to finish at 3.15 and have an allowance of 15minutes in case of technical difficulties or over-running.

The full technical report and practitioners note will be publicly available to read in early June, ahead of the webinar.