Road safety is a major issue of the transport policy of the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. The Ministry has taken the view that sustainable safety should be an integral part of transport policy. Infrastructure safety was the first field analysed for its potential to obtain a sustainable safe transport system. Now vehicle related safety potential should be analysed. In order to enable policy makers to implement the most effective vehicle safety measures the Transport Research Centre (AVV) analysed vehicle safety trends and measures. This analysis is presented in the report “Duurzaam Veilig Voertuig” (Sustainable Safe Vehicle). The report gives an overview of the road safety trends in the Netherlands and in the EU. The main safety problems are singled out. Specific vehicle related safety problems are presented. On the basis of research programs, policy programs in several countries and information from vehicle manufacturers active and passive safety trends are predicted. In the second part of the report an inventory is made of all vehicle safety measures. Out of nearly 100 possible measures 38 factsheets are given of the most promising measures. An assessment of these measures is given in terms of safety potential, cost, acceptance, year of introduction and implementation problems. Sets of measures can be drawn from a matrix. The matrix gives the individual ranking of the measures in safety potential and the other criteria mentioned above. Two sets of measures are specified. One set comprising all measures with a high potential in preventing fatalities. The other set comprising all measures which can be implemented on short term. (Author/publisher)
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