Keuze voor maatregelen op basis van verkeersrisico : resultaten van een proefproject en een discussie rondom het gebruik van risicomaten. In opdracht van het Directoraat-Generaal Rijkswaterstaat, Adviesdienst Verkeer en Vervoer AVV.

This study investigates whether it would be possible to use risk standards as a basis for selecting traffic safety measures. The use of risk standards was investigated based on a pilot study carried out in Midden-Limburg, the Netherlands. For various proposed measures on different kinds of road sections and junctions, the costs and effects were estimated and then evaluated together with the risk figures. This provides a systematic approach to the planned measures. The study shows that it is possible to formulate a strategy for determining the sequence of implementing traffic safety measures. This can be done by applying an explicit costs and benefits approach. Theoretically, the method developed here for the employment of risk standards to arrive at choices in the decision-making process can be used only for measures applied on a small scale with only local effects. An important recommendation is to employ a risk standard in measures at a larger scale.