ICTCT - or to give it its full name, International Co-operation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety - seems to have found its way. After an initial period when conflict observation methods dominated the road safety issue, attention has now shifted to the broader aspects of transport policy. This is clear from the organisation's current programme, which includes the following: research contributions to the formulation of sustainable transport systems, including road safety aspects; raising matters such as the usefulness of conflict observation as a diagnostic and evaluation technique in the short term for existing and proposed infrastructural measures; the use of other methods of evaluating road safety measures, such as questionnaires, interviews and accident analyses. Obviously, this new approach from ICTCT fits in better with the wider issues of transport policy. For this reason, I am delighted that you have asked me to talk about the Netherlands' transport policy in relation to the concepts of a sustainable society and a sustainable safe transport system. (Author/publisher)
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