Bereikbaarheid en veiligheid van openbaar vervoer haltes in Amsterdam-Centrum. In opdracht van Dienst Ruimtelijke Ordening, Sector Verkeer en Vervoer, Gemeente Amsterdam.

In the town centre of the city of Amsterdam yearly 55 pedestrians are injured in the vicinity of stopping places of public transport. This is almost one third of the total number of injured pedestrians in the town centre. An analysis of the accidents shows that these accidents are caused by the unexpected crossing behaviour of the pedestrians and the unadapted behaviour of motorised traffic near the stopping places. The design and layout of the public space in the vicinity of the stopping places is obviously not sufficiently attuned to the actual use of the pedestrians. This applies to stopping places on roads with a clear traffic function as well as to roads with a less traffic function. To study the situation in the vicinity of these stopping places two convential analysis methods are used: an accident-analysis and a conflict-observation. Both methods however show only information about the nature and location of near misses. Therefore a method was developed for the reconnoitring of the moving pattern of the different road users for such complex situation. The method is a coupling of videorecording and computer images. It is then possible to record within a certain time all movements of different transport modes in graphs. This method is used for the research into the accessibility and safety of tram stopping places.