The Long Range Policy Plan (MBP) was developed for the Dutch province of Flevoland in order to realise a sound integrated road safety policy in this province. The MBP is based on an analysis of: (1) road hazards; (2) the determinants that form the basis of road hazards in Flevoland; and (3) of the administrative and social base of support for change and for other future developments envisaged in Flevoland. Based on these analyses, the following points of attention were defined: (1) the road hazard rise affecting slow traffic (pedestrians, cyclists) inside built-up areas; (2) the road hazard affecting fast traffic outside built-up areas; and, within this category, the increasing proportion of single increasing proportion of single accidents (often with serious outcome); and (3) the limited road users' awareness concerning road hazard and their apparently passive acceptance of this fact. Based on these points of attention, projects that will shape the MBP were described, such as: (a) control of driving speeds of fast traffic outside built-up areas; (b) approach to road hazard inside built-up areas by means of so-called safety audits; (c) approach to road hazard in the Noordoostpolder and Zeewolde through a road classification system; and (d) an inventory of financial prospects for road safety projects at municipal and provincial level, and a study of ways to stimulate administrative processes.
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