All mobility is accompanied by risk, the chance for road users to get involved in accidents and to sustain damage and injury. Lack of traffic safety in the Netherlands and the resulting detrimental consequences can be considered as a product of mobility and risk. As regards the traffic safety, measures are mainly taken to descrease risks. However, many of those measures influence the mobility as well. If no attention concerning the evaluation is paid to changes of the mobility, erroneous conclusions will be drawn regarding the effectiveness. In many cases, a policy in order to change the mobility can also influence the global, risk, either by movement of traffic to routes with another risk. A policy to decrease the mobility by car use may lead to the selection of transport modes with a greater risk and produce an unfavorable effect on the traffic in this way. The traffic safety policy has been disaggregated by delegation of subtasks to various organizations on different levels of administration. Measures are focussed on specific groups of road users. Furthermore, the tasks have been quantified. At least, quantitative research into risk and mobility has to be disaggregated in the same measure, especially on behalf of the evaluation of measures and tasks of the policy.


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    Title :

    Verkeersonveiligheid: Produkt van Mobiliteit en Risico (Lack of Traffic Safety: A Product of Mobility and Risk)


    Contributors:
    F. C. Flury (author)

    Publication date :

    1991


    Size :

    29 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English