Attachm <br />Pedestrian safety: a road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners <br />Attach <br />BOX 5A `Living End Roads' <br />The International Federation of Pedestrians (IFP) was <br />founded in 1963 as the umbrella organization for <br />national pedestrian advocacy groups. In 2005 IFP <br />was reorganized with the support ofthe Swiss Pedes- <br />trian Association and a private foundation, and it is <br />now a growing network of pedestrian associations <br />from around the world, as well as other institutions <br />and people interested in walking. The goal of IFP is <br />to promote and defend the right to full access and <br />mobility for people walking. To translate these goals <br />into policies, IFP works towards preventing road traf- <br />fic crashes and injuries. <br />IFP represents the interests of the pedestrian at <br />the international level, working with agencies of <br />the United Nations and the European Union, and <br />cooperates with a wide range of nongovernment <br />organizations. A long-term commitment by IFP in the <br />past decades has been to represent the concerns of <br />walking road users on technical committees of the <br />United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. <br />In recent years, the IFP has begun to undertake pilot <br />projects such as the Living End Road project, which <br />seeks to persuade jurisdictions to update their sig- <br />nage about 'dead end' roads where pedestrians or <br />cyclists may go through. <br />The Living End Roads project builds on a frequent <br />discrepancy in road signage: streets marked with a <br />dead-end sign are often dead ends only for cars, while <br />they may be the preferred and safer route for cyclists <br />and pedestrians. IFP provides local pedestrian asso- <br />ciations with a set of tools to help the municipalities <br />make simple changes to the signs - where legally <br />permitted - so that pedestrians and cyclists receive <br />the appropriate information. While the direct output <br />typically is a straightforward improvement in road sig- <br />nage, the real value ofthe Living End Road project is <br />that it may encourage local traffic engineers to think <br />'outside the box' bytaking the needs of pedestrians <br />and cyclists more readily into account. Within the <br />process, the pedestrian associations can position <br />themselves as a partner ofthe municipality and part <br />of the solution. <br />Source: 8 <br />■C <br />B <br />Page 249 <br />Living end road <br />(pedestrians) <br />Dead end for all <br />Living end road <br />(pedestrians and cyclists) <br />