Safer Access to School tool launched
The Hindu
It will help agencies plan better roads, footpaths for school going children
In Bengaluru, it is estimated that nearly 90 % of children live within 5 kmfrom the school and 58% walk to school.
A web based GIS (Geographic Information Systems) tool ‘Safer Access to Schools’ (SATS), which is touted to help civic agencies in designing infrastructure to ensure safer commute for schoolgoing children — one of the vulnerable roads users — was launched here on Tuesday, by the World Resources Institute (WRI), India with support from Underwriters Laboratories.
Some of the insights of mapping indicate that as of 2019 road accident fatalities occurred during the opening and the closure of school hours; around 227 (31%) pedestrian crash fatalities and 46 (6%) children’s fatalities owing to road accidents happened within 250 metres of the school zone.
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