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Knowledge base

• Sustainable Safety
  vision, implementation...
• Road safety developments
  mobility, risk, casualties...
• Road safety policy
  targets, costs, benefits...
• Road safety costs
  crash costs, road deaths...
  
• Modes of transport
  pedestrians, bicyclist, cars...
• High-risk behaviour
  alcohol, drugs, telephone, fatigue...
• High-risk groups
  children, youngsters, elderly...
• Measures
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• Data and analysis
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Positions

Here you will find the research-based SWOV position on road safety issues which are currently of interest.

• Demerit points systems: recent international effects not necessarily the same in the Netherlands (April 2011)
• Use and need for traffic signs (January 2009)
• More consideration for road safety when judging road pricing effects (December 2007)
• SWOV proposes using the 'severely injured' as road safety indicator (December 2007)
• SWOV maintains its position: daytime running lights is safer (December 2007)
• Demerit points driving licence and alcohol: the standards of police enforcement and campaigns crucial to success (November 2007)
• Accompanied driving from 17 years old: a good initiative (October 2007)
• The modernized driving test: a step in the right direction (September 2007)
• No mixing of longer heavier goods vehicles and vulnerable road users (September 2007)

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