MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT
European Road Safety Charter
Good Practice

Polygon for future responsible adults

Polygon for future responsible adults

Initiative details

Describe the characteristics of your target audience 
Children and teenagers from the schools in our city, with the ages 7-17 years old.

Organisation details

Timisoara City Hall

Local / Public Authority
Andreea Nagy, Timisoara City Hall, European Projects Bureau. Email: andreea.nagy@primariatm.ro phone: +40743048317
Please describe the main road safety challenges/problems you have addressed or are addressing. 
We are addressing the safety in traffic problem, alongside with the congestion problem, having in view that we hope to create the habit for future adults to ride the bike to work instead of using the private cars.
What are your objectives? 
Teach children and teenagers the basic notions of how to cycle and drive in order to prepare them as future participants in traffic and assure they will be able to travel in safety.

Our goal is to collaborate with the schools in the city and enlist the children and teenagers in our program, which will end with an exam that will allow them to gain a certificate for this training, this preparing them as participants in traffic and further on as adults, to become responsible...

Project activities

List the actions you carried/are carrying out 
Date 
Monday, 1 April, 2019
Name of action 

We already made a project proposal and we carried out steps to obtain the authorizations for the documents necessary for the construction of the polygon. In the near future there will be an auction for the engineering of the project (construction).

Evaluation

What has been the effect of the activities? 
We haven’t done any evaluation yet, but we will count how many children and teenagers are participating.
How have you shared information about your project and its results? 
We will promote intensively our initiative, via mass media, socializing networks, and also in schools.
How many people did you reach/have you reached? 
Who carried/carries out the evaluation activities? 
Internal evaluation
When did/will you carry out the evaluation? 
Before, after and continuous monitoring
How many groups did you evaluate/have you evaluated? 
Number of interventions groups 
0
Number of control groups 
0
Please list the indicators you use to measure success 
number of participants
number of participants who obtained the certificate at the end of the program
final test scores
Please describe the evaluation tools you use (i.e. surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc.) 
Counts (participants, participants who obtained the certificate, test scores).

Supporting materials

Attachments 
File polygon_space_plan.docx