In 1994, the `Westland road safety project' was started. In this project, the Dutch national government, the province of South Holland, municipalities, industry, and various organisations cooperate. The aim is to drastically reduce the road traffic hazard in the Westland region. The Westland road safety project group has drawn up a working programme which also includes short-term measures. The SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research has contributed to the preparation of the short-term measures in the form of an assessment of the proposed measures. This assessment was based on the `sustainably safe' traffic principles. Within this framework, 22 proposals for infrastructural measures have been assessed. In addition, a recommendation has been issued about their concrete realisation. A line of reasoning has been drawn up to enable priorities to be set within the overall measures proposed. The various plans for non-infrastructural measures were commented on and supplemented by proposals for measures considered to have a high probability of success. Another SWOV activity concerned a contribution to the working programme in the form of an introduction to the `sustainably safe' principles and their application in the Westland region. The introduction to the `sustainably safe' policy and the detailed discussion of the 22 infrastructural projects have been added as appendixes.
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