Traffic gardens are deployed worldwide to introduce traffic safety skills and encourage active transportation. This global page showcases diverse approaches from around the world, highlighting shared principles as well as local innovations, so communities can learn from one another’s successes. The first story in our global series comes from Albania, with more to follow. These examples show how traffic gardens are shaping safer, more confident young road users worldwide.

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​Here’s a quick look at recent developments in the global traffic garden world:​

• Austria: Twenty Verkehrsgärten, or Traffic Gardens, are located across Austria.

• Bulgaria: More than 1,000 traffic gardens have been recently installed in kindergartens and primary schools through the highway safety department.

• Czechia: 240 traffic gardens in a country where traffic education has been a mandatory part of education since 1934.

• Germany: Deutsche Verkehrswacht has helped create over 600 school-based traffic gardens.

• Ireland: Seven+ new Learn-to-Cycle Tracks have been installed in a handful of years.

• Netherlands: ANWB has installed 70+ traffic gardens at schools to support cycling education.

• South Africa: At least 36 Junior Traffic Training Centers now operate in the Western Cape alone.

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We have already identified many hundreds more traffic gardens that are waiting to be added to the global map, and whenever we think we're catching up, we learn of even more. Radlobby Österreich, the national cycling advocacy organization, recently sent us the wonderful Austrian bike parks map they have created.

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More stories coming soon on how traffic gardens are transforming communities worldwide!