This report describes a study into aspects of traffic safety policy in Dutch municipalities. The study was carried out by means of a postal questionnaire survey in which 59% of all Dutch municipalities took part. A still growing part of all municipalities have a special traffic safety coordinator. Municipalities where this is the case, are not significantly more active in the field of traffic safety than other municipalities. However, their score on the quality index is higher. In general, municipal policy effort in the field of traffic safety is still increasing and 40% of the municipalities assess the priority of their traffic safety policy as high. The quality index discussed in this report enables one to make clear distinctions among municipalities with respect to their traffic safety policy. The mean score on the index is significantly higher than it was in 1991. (A)
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