De effecten van een Duurzaam Veilige inrichting van verblijfsgebieden in de gemeente Enschede. Afstudeerscriptie Civiele Techniek aan de Universiteit Twente, Enschede.

In the year 2000, the municipality of Enschede started the implementation of a sober lay-out of the project Sustainable Safe in its residential areas. This lay-out is supposed to improve the safety of the road environment. The lay-out consists of establishing a speed limit of 30 km/h within the residential areas, taking measures on the road’s most unsafe areas, and implementing so-called gateway constructions on the borders to road environments where a higher speed limit applies. The measures to be taken mostly consist of building speed bumps and plateaus, which should cause a lowering in speed and/or raise the driver’s attention to an upcoming dangerous point. In the municipality of Enschede, the number of measures taken with respect to Sustainable Safe has been rather limited up until now. The gateway constructions should be implemented through the use of exit constructions and road signs clearly warning the traffic partakers that they are entering an area where a different speed limit applies. The municipality of Enschede has applied these measures in this manner on several spots, and several exit constructions were already in place in areas where there was a transition to a higher speed limit. However, many transitional spots still consisted of merely a sign and two lines on the road. Now that the sober lay-out of Sustainable Safe has been completed, it is meant for the residential areas to get a full Sustainable Safe lay-out. However, the execution of this plan costs a lot of money; money the municipality of Enschede does not have available at the moment. This study tries to give some insight into the status of road safety in the residential areas of Enschede, and the effect the implementation of Sustainable Safe (SuSa) has had on the road safety, through the use of five hypotheses. In doing so, this study can help the local council set up a priority list of residential areas that need improvement of road safety. It can also be used to justify certain decisions with respect to the use of the municipality’s budget. (Author/publisher)