Since 1960 dutch towns have been increasingly confronted with a lack of space, air pollution and road safety problems. The cause of these was the car with its expanding domination of the road traffic scene. During the latter half of the 1970's the realisation grew that car traffic in towns and villages had to be curbed and that pedestrians and cyclists should be allowed more space. Since then, the central government has aimed at excluding motorized traffic as much as possible from residential areas and at concentrating it onto a limited number of designated through-roads. In order to establish how this goal can best be achieved, the government is carrying out a policy of experiments to research the effects of different types of measures. Under this policy far-reaching infrastructural measures were taken between 1979 and 1981 in the cities of eindhoven and rijswijk to improve living conditions and safety in residential streets and at the same time to improve the flow of through-traffic. Over the years a large number of reports of these various studies have been published; to make the results available it has been decided to summarise the most important data in this english-language booklet.
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