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Number 4, April 2011 |
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How does an integral approach become a success?
How can you create the conditions for people from different backgrounds, means, and targets to work together on a project and complete it to everyone's satisfaction?
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Safer roads with a quality assurance system
A quality assurance system can help to improve road safety. The recent SWOV report A quality assurance system for road safety in road design and road management investigated the possibilities for the introduction of such a system at a regional level.
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Reports |
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Methods and instruments that can be used as a basis for road safety policy
L.T. Aarts (ed.). R-2011-3.
This report presents an updated, extensive inventory of methods and instruments that are used or can be used by policy makers at regional and other levels to make, prioritize or substantiate road safety policy.
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A quality assurance system for road safety in road design and road management
J. Mesken, W.J.R. Louwerse, M.W. van der Veen & N.J. Beenker. R-2011-2.
This report describes a proposal for a quality assurance system for road safety in road design and management. The report is the result of various activities in the field of quality care that SWOV has undertoken in the research programme 2007-2010.
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Changes in road safety financing and policy since the introduction of the Broad Goal-oriented Grant (BDU) legislation
Ch. Goldenbeld, W. Wijnen, C.A. Bax, J. de Jong & M.J.P. van Oosterhout. R-2010-36.
This report presents a study into developments in the financing of road safety and road safety policy before and after the introduction of payments according to the Broad Goal-oriented Grant Traffic and Transport.
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Pilot study into road safety financing and policy
H.M. Jagtman, W. Wijnen & C.A. Bax. R-2010-33.
This study has investigated for two Dutch provinces and two municipalities in those provinces 1) how they make considerations about investments in different areas, and 2) how much they spend on road safety.
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Pilot study into a quality assurance system for road safety in road design and management
J. Mesken, H.M. Jagtman, W.J.R. Louwerse & C.A. Bax. R-2010-28.
This study investigated for the Dutch provinces North Holland and Gelderland how they could deal with quality assurance in road design and road management.
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Fact sheets updates |
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Fatigue and traffic: causes and effects
The SWOV fact sheet Fatigue and traffic: causes and effects has been updated.
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SWOV in the Dutch media |
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Road casualties 2010
On 18 April, Statistics Netherlands and the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment presented the number of road fatalities in 2010: 640. SWOV reacted to this figure by expressing its concern about the quality of the accident registration by the police. The Dutch newspapers and magazines Elsevier, Trouw, De Gelderlander, De Telegraaf and NRC Handelsblad published theSWOV reaction. SWOV director Fred Wegman was also interviewed on the NOS Radio 1 News and the Radio 2 programme Knooppunt Kranenbarg. |
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Demerit points licence
At the end of March, it became known that the Public Prosecution Service advises the minister of Infrastructure and the Environment and the minister of Safety and Justice to introduce the demerit points licence for all drivers. Until now only novice drivers have a demerit points licence in the Netherlands. On 11 April, the Dutch newspaper Financieele Dagblad published an article about the demerit points licence in which SWOV was mentioned. The article prompted several other media, among which Nu.nl, Telegraaf, AD and the press agencies NOVUM and GPD, to pay attention to this topic. On 14 April, the story was continued and NOS announced that often the demerit points are not registered on the licences of novice drivers. SWOV published a Position about the road safety effects of the demerit points system.
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Aggression in traffic
On 24 March, SWOV researcher Jolieke Mesken was interviewed about aggression in traffic in the radio programme Premtime. The programme chose this topic in reaction to the information campaign vriendelijkverkeer (friendlytraffic), which was initiated by the Dutch Cyclists' Union. |
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Library |
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New acquisitions
Every day, publications are added to the SWOV library collection, both those ordered by us and those sent to us. Every month, an overview of these is placed on our website, to be consulted.
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Auto motives : understanding car use behaviors
K. Lucas, E. Blumenberg & R. Weinberger. Bingley, Emerald Group Publishing, 2011, XVIII + 292 p., ref. - ISBN 978-0-85724-233-4.
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Effect of passenger presence on older drivers' risk of fatal crash involvement
K.A. Braitman, N.K. Chaudhary & A.T. McCartt. Arlington, VA, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS, 2011, 15 p., 21 ref.
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An evaluation of approaches that can prevent sleepiness at the wheel
E.S. Wilschut, C.J. Caljouw & P.J.L. Valk. Soesterberg, TNO Defence, Security and Safety, 2009, 21 p. + app., 52 ref.; TNO Report TNO-DV 2009 C328.
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Conferences and meetings |
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Road safety for low and medium income countries
Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands offers a two week postgraduate course Road safety for low and medium income countries (LMICs)on 14-25 november 2011. The course is intended for road safety professionals with a masters degree who are developing road safety plans and training programs in LMICs. After the course, certificated participants will receive support to bring the lessons into practice.
More information on www.roadsafetycourse.org |
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