The recent stagnation in further reduction of road accidents, insufficient results of existing policies to improve road safety and its rather curative nature of these policies induced the wish to renew and to improve road safety policy in the Netherlands. This new approach is called : a sustainable safe road transport system. This system has an infrastructure that is adadpted to the limitation of human capacity through road design, vehicles fitted with ways to simplify the task of man and constructed to protect the vulnerable human being as effectively as possible and a road user who is adequately educated, informed and, where necesssary, controlled. In a sustainable safe infrastructure every road is appointed only one specific function. Three categories of roads have to be created: pure through roads, pure distributor roads and pure access roads. Design principles have been drafted. (A)
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