A central principle of traffic safety is to eliminate or minimize conflicts, such as those between streams of moving vehicles
and between pedestrians and vehicles. When conflicts cannot be avoided, measures should be taken to minimize speeds.
When designing a new school site, the various design components (buildings, driveways, walkways, bus loading areas,
parking lots, etc.) should be positioned to eliminate or minimize conflicts.
The widely accepted site selection criteria is to avoid locations with direct access to high-speed roadways are to provide access from more than one direction to the immediate vicinity of the site.
are to provide access from more than one direction to the immediate vicinity of the site.