Samenvatting
The report describes state-of-the-art approaches to road accident black spot management and safety analysis of road networks. It is shown that the empirical Bayes approach to road safety estimation is the best currently available aaproach for identifying hazardous road locations. A survey of current approaches to black spot management and safety management of road systems in different countries indicates that current approaches to accident analysis for hazardous road locations need considerable development. (Author/publisher)