
Proximity of Care Design Guide
Traffic Agent App
Kids Crowdsourced Walkability App
Image by Jon Skille Amundsen
With the aim of encouraging children to walk and cycle to school, this smartphone app gamifies the collection of road safety data, helping improve the city’s walking infrastructure and reducing car use.
This app ‘casts’ its primary-school age users in the role of secret agents, encouraging them to compile and send reports of their everyday journey to school.
Location Oslo, Norway
Organisation City of Oslo - Govenment Partner organisations: Vibeke Rørholt
Date 2016
Scale of catchment City, Neighbourhood
Built environment component Public space; Street
Beneficiary Children ages 6-13
Links/Sources:
https://www.springwise.com/app-gamifies-street-design-gets-kids-involved/
https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/sep/02/app-oslo-children-traffic-road-safety