Urban travel patterns and safety among school children around Accra, Ghana

ConclusionThe paper draws attention to traffic collisions and fatalities among basic school pupils in and around Accra. Particularly, the paper resonates the worsening trip-to-school behaviours of basic school pupils in African cities. Cities on the continent still provide unsafe, expensive and inefficient transport services. The paper calls for a re-examination of urban mobility and safety among school pupils; as an urgent urban transport policy issue in Africa cities.
Source: Journal of Transport and Health - Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research