Abstract
Assessing vulnerability of the Netherlands’ national road network. A vulnerability assessment of the Netherlands’ national road network was performed, using whatever data and tools were available. The study focussed on discrete disturbances affecting road capacity, esp. small and major accidents, road works and rainfall. The damage caused by resulting unreliability of travel time makes up a considerable part of total damage from travel delays. About half of the most vulnerable road sections and road sections are also prone to the highest total loss of vehicle-hours. It appears that: densely intersected roads tend to increase vulnerability in an overloaded network. (Author/publisher)