THE WESTLAND ROAD SAFETY PROJECT. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INFRASTRUCTURAL AND OTHER MEASURES

PROJECT VERKEERSVEILIGHEID WESTLAND. ADVIEZEN VOOR INFRASTRUCTURELE EN ANDERE MAATREGELEN

In 1994, the 'Westland road safety project' was started. In this project, the Dutch national government, the province of South Holland, municipalities, industry, and various organisations cooperate. The aim is to drastically reduce the road traffic hazard in the Westland region. The Westland road safety project group has drawn up a working programme which also includes short-term measures. The SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research has contributed to the preparation of the short-term measures in the form of an assessment of the proposed measures. This assessment was based on the 'sustainably safe' traffic principles. Within this framework, 22 proposals for infrastructural measures have been assessed. In addition, a recommendation has been issued about their concrete realisation. A line of reasoning has been drawn up to enable priorities to be set within the overall measures proposed. The various plans for non-infrastructural measures were commented on and supplemented by proposals for measures considered to have a high probability of success. Another SWOV activity concerned a contribution to the working programme in the form of an introduction to the 'sustainably safe' principles and their application in the Westland region. The introduction to the 'sustainably safe' policy and the detailed discussion of the 22 infrastructural projects have been added as appendixes.

• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV

  Bezuidenhoutseweg 62
  The Hague,   Netherlands  2594 AW
• Authors:
  • VAN MINNEN, J
  • NOORDZIJ, P C
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Pagination: 45 p.
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: R-95-29

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Education; Evaluation and assessment; Improvements; Law enforcement; Layout; Safety; Traffic; Traffic engineering
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• ITRD Terms: 2284: Education; 1534: Enforcement (law); 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 9108: Improvement; 2885: Layout; 8078: Netherlands; 1665: Safety; 755: Traffic; 655: Traffic engineering
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00719756
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Apr 26 1996 12:00AM