The ‘Road safety manual’ is the English version of the Dutch CROW-publication 261 ‘Handboek verkeersveiligheid’. This manual clusters all the knowledge about road safety in the Netherlands. It consists of three parts. Part 1 seeks to get a handle on the subject of road safety. Part 1 comprises chapters 1 to 5: theory; trends and developments; policy; data collection and data analysis; and practical research. Part 2 addresses measures that can be taken, focusing on the three Es and the three Ps. Engineering, Education and Enforcement are the three classical instruments with which traffic behaviour can be influenced, while Push, Pull and Persuasion are the three ways of utilising these instruments. Part 2 comprises chapters 6 to 10: spatial planning and the road environment; infrastructure; vehicle safety; traffic education; and traffic enforcement. Part 3 presents an overview of practical problems and how these can be tackled. Assimilating the items discussed in part 1 and part 2 into integrated approaches to road safety, this part explains that everything is interconnected. Part 3 comprises chapters 11, 12 and 13: risk-enhancing behaviour in traffic; specific groups of road users; and practical examples. (Author/publisher)
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