This is TrafficQuest’s third annual review: Traffic in the Netherlands 2016. As in the previous editions, we present you with an overview of the current situation and the developments in traffic and traffic management. We disentangle the spaghetti of information on traffic and look in detail at what is changing in traffic and transport. And as you will learn, many things are changing. As is customary, we begin our annual review in Chapter 1 with an overview of all the statistical trends related to accessibility, safety and the environment. We zoom in on a number of specific cases, namely the opening (after all those years) of the A4 Midden-Delfland motorway and the bottlenecks to be expected on the A2 between Deil and Empel. Then, in Chapter 2, we discuss the themes of 2016. What is the traffic world focusing on and what is TrafficQuest particularly interested in? We ourselves worked on drawing up an inventory of traffic management functions and their relationship to C-ITS. Another important theme involved data sources and unlocking those sources. The focus was also on traffic management in the event of a calamity and on how C-ITS can play a role in this. Last year, we dealt with urban traffic management in detail, but it continues to be a subject that deserves attention. The same applies to evaluation: what is the impact of automated driving on traffic flow and what does an evaluation framework for C-ITS and automated driving actually look like? Important questions to which we still don't have clear answers, so they will continue to be relevant in the time to come. (Author/publisher)
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