Safe Mobility Environments: Girls and boys from Cuautlancingo, Puebla

Abstract

Nationally, road safety is one of the leading causes of death in children, and the second leading cause in adolescents and young adults. In recent years, in the State of Puebla, the number of road accidents has increased in terms of fatalities and injuries in vehicle collisions, hit-and-runs and overturns. Although mobility is the right of every person to move, the design of the road environment must facilitate its understanding and use to be a safe environment for all users and more of the vulnerable population such as children, especially in their daily movements. That is why the present case aims to retake the perception of elementary school children of the Centro Educativo en Acción, in the municipality of Cuautlancingo, Puebla. Under the principles of connectivity, legibility and habitability of their experiences as users of the street near their home and the street in front of their school from the elements of the natural, built, social and emotional environment. In conclusion, it is possible to identify the impact of the urbanization process that neglects the needs of public space, which is disjointed between road infrastructure and urban spaces. This situation affects the interaction of children in road environments, conditioning not only their movements, but also their perception of safety in the face of any harm that violates their right to safe mobility.