Samenvatting
In the mid-seventies North Brabant started carrying out road safety research and introducing measures, and van one of the first provinces in the Netherlands to make concrete efforts to meet the sharp change in public opinion in the seventies on the effects of traffic on people's well-being. It is shown that theoretical and practical training of road safety experts can have a more structured road safety policy which covers a wider area than just the management of highways in the province.