Traffic area

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The transport area includes all of road users and transport usable roads . It denotes the terrain or the area in which traffic takes place.

separations

The traffic area is subdivided into

In the case of motor vehicles, the land traffic area contains the streets , in the case of pedestrians the pedestrian zones and sidewalks , in the case of cyclists the cycle paths , in the case of rail vehicles the routes , in the case of aircraft the released airspace , in the case of watercraft the navigable waterways , inland lakes and seas , each including the traffic junctions .

There are private and public traffic areas. Whether a traffic area is public or private has an impact on the building authorities and on the punishment of traffic offenses and on who is responsible for road safety . The sovereign rights also play a role here.

Depending on usage, it is divided into

  • Traffic area of ​​the stationary means of transport and
  • Traffic area of ​​the moving means of transport. In the case of road traffic, for example, the latter means that the usable traffic space initially increases due to higher speed , but can also decrease again due to traffic jams.

In terms of training, it is divided into

  • Already rooms , among which the traffic education spaces in the play area understands that enable protected areas in a safe practice and training the traffic handling. Classrooms, sports halls, schoolyards or traffic training areas serve as such protected spaces . Flight simulators with digitally provided airspaces are used for pilot training.
  • Road sign for a restricted traffic area
    Traffic-calmed areas (DE), residential streets (AT), meeting areas (CH), by which traffic education understands traffic areas that provide limited protection for playing or learning how to deal with traffic in a playful way by allowing reduced traffic or completely avoiding traffic, such as the pedestrian zone or in Germany also the Spielstraße .
  • Real traffic area (Nuremberg)
    Real traffic areas , by which     traffic education understands public traffic on the streets, in the air and on the water, subject to the relevant traffic law and statutory regulations.

Use of traffic space

Outside the private traffic area (living space, private property, etc.) is the public traffic area. Since different interests in movement and streams of movement with considerable movement dynamics meet here, these traffic areas are particularly dangerous for the life and health of road users. This means that a certain amount of traffic competence must be given to safety handling the hazardous potential and be able to use with other road users the traffic space partnership.

Due to the highly complicated and complex traffic system, the use of the various traffic areas places different demands on the road users. The qualification must be acquired for the use of the particularly dangerous traffic areas through special training courses and examinations and proven by appropriate licenses. These have different levels of commitment. For example, a driver's license is required for driving land vehicles , a flight license for using the airspace , and a corresponding skipper's license for navigating waterways . For pedestrians and cyclists, on the other hand, a traffic qualification has so far only been urgently recommended and is conveyed by schools and transport institutions such as the German Traffic Guard in the form of a pedestrian diploma and a cycling test . In addition, the police regularly offer, mostly free of charge, training courses and training grounds for all road users.

Traffic space as living space

The traffic pedagogy understands Transport Area as a habitat that basically everyone (children, adolescents, adults, the infirm, the disabled) safe as possible must be available. In order to guarantee this, appropriate technical measures are required on the part of politics and town planning and appropriate training programs on the part of traffic education. The pedagogical introduction to road participation naturally always begins with dealing with road traffic and participating as a pedestrian. It must begin with the pre-school education and accompany the entire school education with increasing demands. The different needs and abilities when using the common traffic area must be respected. This also includes the sporty use of the airspace, for example by sports pilots such as paragliders , hang-gliders or ultralight pilots .

See also

literature

  • Recommendation for traffic education in school. Resolution of the Standing Conference of 7 July 1972 i. d. F. dated June 17, 1994. Secretariat of the Permanent Conference of the Ministers of Education of the Federal States in the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn 1994.
  • Roland Gorges: Life situation “road traffic” In: A. Krenz (Ed.): Method competence in kindergarten . Olzog Verlag, Munich 2006, pp. 1–23.
  • N. Neumann-Opitz, R. Bartz: Traffic education programs in teacher training and further education. (= Reports of the Federal Highway Research Institute, sub-series man and security. Issue M216). 2011, ISBN 978-3-86918-105-9 .
  • Siegbert A. Warwitz: Are traffic accidents 'tragic' coincidences? In: thing-word-number. 102, 2009, pp. 42-50.
  • Siegbert A. Warwitz: Traffic education from the child. Perceive-play-think-act. 6th edition. Schneider-Verlag, Baltmannsweiler 2009, ISBN 978-3-8340-0563-2 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Verkehrsraum  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The school square as a traffic area
  2. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz: The systematic structure of traffic education. In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child. Perceive-play-think-act. Baltmannsweiler (Schneider-Verlag). 6th edition. 2009, pp. 72-75.
  3. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz: Are traffic accidents 'tragic' coincidences? In: thing-word-number. 102, 2009, pp. 42-50.
  4. ^ N. Neumann-Opitz, R. Bartz: Traffic education programs in teacher training and further training. (= Reports of the Federal Highway Research Institute, sub-series man and security. Issue M216). 2011.
  5. ↑ Roland Gorges: Life situation "road traffic". In: A. Krenz (Hrsg.): Method competence in kindergarten . Olzog Verlag, Munich 2006, pp. 1–23.
  6. ↑ Recommendation for traffic education in schools. Resolution of the Standing Conference of 7 July 1972 i. d. F. dated June 17, 1994. Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Culture of the Federal States in the Federal Republic of Germany. Bonn 1994.
  7. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz: Traffic education from the child. Perceive-play-think-act. 6th edition. Schneider-Verlag, Baltmannsweiler 2009.