BRABANT ROAD SAFETY LABEL: MAXIMUM EFFECT THROUGH SCHOOLS The Brabant Road Safety Label (BVL) has been introduced in Brabant in 1997: a project to improve road safety among children and youths by structural attention to traffic education in schools.
This may occur in two ways:
- The BVL-project:
A road safety quality mark schools can obtain by meeting a number of criteria, both educational and extracurricular (e.g. safe school environment, practice-based traffic education and sufficient parental participation). Independent experts judge the schools. When the label has been awarded progress is audited. Local authorities actively supporting the schools become BVL-authorities. Specific BVL-measures include purchasing modern educational material, bicycle proficiency training, bicycle lights promotions, school-home routes projects, encouraging transportation to school by bike, actively investigating the new bike routes when leaving elementary for secondary education, and attention for parental transportation choices concerning schoolchildren.
- The BVL-approach as example of:
Soft measures as a result of DuurzaamVeilig 2. Cooperation in local road safety platforms among all traffic (safety) partners, e.g. vvn, police, driving schools, (traffic) parents, local authorities, educational assistance teams. Local authorities are assisted by the BVL-team, with standard or, if requested, made-to-measure material.
