ANALYSIS OF POSSIBLE MEASURES TO INCREASE THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY OF CHILDREN AT A SELECTED LOCATION IN THE URBAN NETWORK OF OSIJEK

Sve veća prometna opterećenost gradova i rastući sigurnosni zahtjevi predstavljaju veliki problem odvijanja suvremenog gradskog prometa. Motorni je promet sve brojniji, a potreba pojedinca za gradskim putovanjima sve je izraženija. Zahtjevi su da takvo kretanje kroz grad bude brzo, efikasno, udobno, sigurno, ekonomski i ekološki održivo, a često naslijeđeni gradski mrežni sustavi ne odgovaraju ovim zahtjevima. Najveća negativna posljedica nagle motorizacije je umanjena sigurnost prometa, posebno za djecu pješake koji još nisu fizički ni mentalno spremni za sigurno samostalno kretanje kroz grad. Zadaća prometnog planiranja je prepoznati i predvidjeti koje lokacije ne udovoljavaju navedenim zahtjevima, da bi se prometnom regulacijom ili građevinskom rekonstrukcijom prilagodile zahtjevima sigurnog i efikasnog kretanja svih sudionika kroz urbanu prometnu mrežu. U ovom je radu pronađena i opisana lokacija u prometnoj mreži grada Osijeka u blizini osnovne škole, koja je rizična za pješački promet djece. Na osnovi podataka dobivenih terenskim istraživanjem, predložena je moguća mjera regulacije kojom bi se poboljšali prometni uvjeti.Growing traffic load in the cities and the increasing safety demands pose a major problem for modern city traffic. Motor traffic is increasing and the individual need for traveling through the city is more pronounced. This travel needs to be fast, efficient, comfortable, safe, economically and environmentally sustainable and often inherited city networks do not meet all these requirements. The biggest negative effect of high motorization is reduced traffic safety, especially for children as pedestrians who are not yet physically or mentally ready to safely navigate through the city. The task of traffic planning is to recognize and predict which locations no longer meet the mentioned requirements in order to adapt them through traffic regulation or reconstruction to the demands of safe and efficient movement of all participants through the urban transport network. In this paper a location near a primary school risky for children pedestrians was found and described. Based on data obtained from field research a possible regulatory measure to improve traffic conditions is proposed