Rijkswegenplanning : meteen bloedend hart naar een veilige, vlotte en efficiënte verkeersafwikkeling.

When planning traffic infrastructure the government tries to pursue an integral, balanced and justified policy by means of a great number of schemes, procedures and plans. Nevertheless the planned location of a motorway often evokes severe reactions of citizens as well as of lower public authorities. In this paper the procedures used by planning traffic infrastructure are reviewed.