The policy as recorded in the Dutch Mobility Policy Document was the reason that during the last few years regional network analyses were carried out in eleven urban areas. These network analyses are intended to make an inventory of regional accessibility and to make an estimate of the effects that certain possible measures are likely to have on accessibility. Road safety is often only an implicit part of the regional network analysis. Therefore, regional network analyses at best give only a qualitative understanding of the present state of road safety or in the road safety effects of measures which are to be taken. Nonetheless, it is important to also make a quantitative inventory of road safety. This gives us the opportunity to include road safety in cost-benefit analyses and to take into account the contribution of different (accessibility) measures to the regional road safety targets. This study presents a method to structurally and quantitatively include road safety in regional network analyses. It tests the method in two regions where the network analyses have already been executed: the region South-Limburg and the Urban region Arnhem Nijmegen.
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