In the autumn of 1998 The National Swedish Road Administration (Vaegverket) gave the Institute of Transport Economics in Norway (TOI) the task of analysing which improvements in the traffic safety conditions that was possible to implement - given the economical, political, social, organisational and cultural conditions of the Swedish (and Norwegian) society. The result of the project is presented in this paper. The conclusions is mainly in the type of thoughts, not straight and underlined answers. The results are hypnotises', based on theories about decision-making processes and to some extent, facts gathered from examples of such processes. I have experienced, over the last years, that too few studies have been conducted into the world of power and politics around road building and traffic-safety. The main focus has been on effects of measures, not processes concerning how they did or did not come into being. (Author/publisher).
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