ON THE WAY TO INTEGRATED ROAD SAFETY PROGRAMMES

The number of traffic fatalities in the industrialized countries has decreased enormously since the beginning of the nineteen seventies, after a period of continuous increase. This favourable development seems to have stopped in most countries. Have effective measures lost their effectiveness; or do simple far reaching measures no longer work? It is generally agreed that a more integrated approach is necessary. Until now, effective measures for industrialized countries were: crash helmets, safety belts, improvement of vehicles (active and passive safety), reduction of speed and homogeneity of speeds, improvement of black spots, reconstruction of residential areas, construction of motorways, and segregation of different traffic participants. However, as long as the road safety problem does not score high enough as a social and political problem the possibilities to integrate with other problems will remain small.

• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV

  Bezuidenhoutseweg 62
  The Hague,   Netherlands  2594 AW
• Authors:
  • WEGMAN, FCM
  • Oppe, S
• Publication Date: 1988

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 18 p.
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: R-88

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fatalities; Improvements; International; Policy; Prevention; Safety; Sociology; Traffic
• Uncontrolled Terms: Decreases
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 9009: Decrease; 1602: Fatality; 9108: Improvement; 9034: International; 173: Policy; 1665: Safety; 2253: Sociology; 755: Traffic
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00487340
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: -11
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1989 12:00AM