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Goals and Policies

The goals of IFP are to promote and to defend the pedestrian's right to full access and mobility.
A more comprehensive description of this general goal you find in the International Charter for Walking which you find here:

The International Charter for Walking (pdf / 81.1 KB)

On the website www.walk21.com anyone may sign the International Charter for Walking.

On our page "Basic Texts" you find the language versions translated so far.

By translating these goals into policies, IFP works toward the prevention of traffic collisions and the reduction of injury and disability resulting from them. The protection of children and the elderly as the most vulnerable groups in society is most urgent. The planning and design of residential areas that are scaled to the pedestrian, safe from traffic hazards, secure from crime, environmentally pleasing and the provision of easy access to efficient and affordable public transport is basic for pedestrian safety.

Towards the attainment of its goals and the broad adoption of these policies, IFP represents the interests of the pedestrian at the international level. IFP works with agencies of the United Nations and of the European Union, and cooperates with a wide range of non-governmental organizations.

A long-range commitment by IFP in the past decades has been to represent the concerns of walking road users on technical committees of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE) such as the Working Party on Road Safety whose tasks include the periodic updating of the 1968 Vienna International Convention of Road Traffic.