This study performs a road hazard analysis for the Dutch municipalities, based on the number of road accident victims. For this purpose, the municipalities were classified into the following three groups: (1) active; (2) less active; and (3) least active. These groups refer to the municipal policy-related activity in the road safety field in response to the influence of the Incentive Scheme Campaign -25%. The analysis compares the 1984-1986 period with the 1990-1992 period. The results of the study did not offer a clear correlation between the degree of municipal activity and the development in road hazard. This does not mean, however, that the Incentive Scheme Campaign -25% did not exert any influence in the degree exert any influence in the degree of road hazard. Rather, it was determined that the explorative study approach and the analysis method were evidently inadequate.
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