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Road safety is a major issue of the transport policy of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. The Ministry has taken the view that sustainable safety should be an integral part of transport policy. Infrastructure safety was the first field analysed for its potential to obtain a sustainable safe transport system. Now, vehicle related safety potential should be analysed. In order to enable policy makers to implement the most effective vehicle safety measures the Transport Research Centre (AVV) analysed vehicle safety trends and measures. This analysis is presented in this report. The report gives an overview of the road safety trends in the Netherlands and in the EU. The main safety problems are singled out. Specific vehicle related safety problems are presented. On the basis of research programmes, policy programmes in several countries and information from vehicle manufacturers, active and passive safety trends are predicted. In the second part of the report, an inventory is made of all vehicle safety measures. Out of nearly 100 possible measures 38 factsheets are given of the most promising measures. An assessment of these measures is given in terms of safety potential, cost, acceptance, year of introduction and implementation problems. Sets of measures can be drawn from a matrix. The matrix gives the individual ranking of the measures in safety potential and the other criteria mentioned. Two sets of measures are specified: one set comprising all measures with a high potential in preventing fatalities, and the other set comprising all measures which can be implemented in the short term.

• Corporate Authors:

  DIRECTORAAT-GENERAAL RIJKSWATERSTAAT, ADVIESDIENST VERKEER EN VERVOER

  P O BOX 1031
  ROTTERDAM,   Netherlands  3000 BA
• Authors:
  • AMMERLAAN, H
  • DRIEVER, J P
  • VAN KAMPEN, L T
  • VAN AREM, B
  • SCHOON, C C
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Pagination: 100p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Development; Evaluation and assessment; Fatalities; Injuries; Policy; Prevention; Safety; Vehicles
• Identifier Terms: European Union
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 224: Cost; 9013: Development; 8303: EU; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 1602: Fatality; 2163: Injury; 8078: Netherlands; 173: Policy; 9149: Prevention; 1665: Safety; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Finance; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01019659
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Mar 9 2006 8:07AM