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| SWOV Newsletter September 2009 |
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With this monthly newsletter we wish to draw your attention to new topics on our website. This month in the SWOV newsletter: |
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| SWOV in the media | |||||||||||||||
| Mobile phone use behind the wheel Police chief Bert Wijbenga wants stricter enforcement of handheld phone use behind the wheel, so he announced in an interview with the Dutch paper AD. Previously an article was published in that paper about a total ban on phone use while driving. This prompted BNR-newsradio to pay attention to this topic twice in the past month in their talkshow PepTalk. In those talkshows SWOV researchers Maura Houtenbos and Divera Twisk explained the dangers of mobile phone us behind the wheel, both handsfree and handheld. A16 a popular race track The Dutch paper AD reported that the A16 motorway near the town of Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht is often used as a race track. A massive number of drivers use that motorway for excessive speeding. In the article, SWOV researcher Letty Aarts states that excessive speeding is very unsafe under all circumstances. |
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| Road safety effects of anti-crash systems Estimation of the effects on crashes on motorways involving lorries. R.G. Eenink. R-2009-11. Anti-crash systems (ACS) for lorries were examined in a large scale field operational test with the purpose of finding out which contribution in-vehicle systems can make to the prevention of crashes or (serious) injury and the resulting lessening of traffic jams and lost vehicle hours. This report restricts itself to the prevention of crashes involving lorries on motorways in the Netherlands. In the report the ACS test results, a crash analysis, and research literature are used to estimate the road safety effects of ACS in terms of numbers of fatalities and in-patients saved. |
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| Fact sheets updates | |||||||||||||||
| The road safety of motorway tunnels Fear-based information campaigns The relation between speed and crashes Effects of police enforcement of safety devices, of moped helmet use, and of red light running Cyclists Measuring (un) safety of roads |
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| Library | |||||||||||||||
| New acquisitions Every day, publications are added to the 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. You will find the overview here. Advancing Sustainable Safety : national road safety outlook for The Netherlands for 2005-2020. F. Wegman, L. Aarts & C. Bax. Safety Science, Vol. 46 (2008), No. 2 (February), p. 323-343 Although road safety has improved enormously over time, and The Netherlands is one of the safest countries in the world, the current annual number of road casualties is still considered as unacceptable. To support next steps the sustainable safety vision was launched in the early 1990s. The idea was to make the Dutch road traffic system inherently safe. Sustainable safety was the guide in the approach of improving road safety in The Netherlands the last two decades. Because implemented sustainable safety measures reduced the number of casualties, the vision can be considered as successful. More than a decade later, SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research judged the time ready for evaluating and updating the original Sustainable Safety vision. Driver training and traffic safety education. Brussels, European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, 2009, [34] p. This consultation deals with a major area of road safety: driver training and traffic safety education. Its objective is to provide a framework to help further define guidelines and recommendations for efficient driver training and traffic safety education in the European Union. The aim is to concentrate on novice drivers, while also encouraging drivers to continue formal life-long learning after they have passed their test. Roadway safety design workbook.J.A. Bonneson & M.P. Pratt. College Station, TX, Texas A & M University, Texas Transportation Institute TTI, 2009, VIII + [221] p., 7 ref.; Report 0-04703-P2 / FHWA/TX-09/0-4703-P2 Highway safety is an ongoing concern to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). As part of its proactive commitment to improving highway safety, TxDOT is moving toward including quantitative safety analyses earlier in the project development process. The objectives of this research project are: (1) the development of safety design guidelines and evaluation tools to be used by TxDOT designers, and (2) the production of a plan for the incorporation of these guidelines and tools in the planning and design stages of the project development process. This document provides the best-available information describing the relationship between various highway geometric design components and crash frequency. |
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| SWOV website | |||||||||||||||
| Index of road safety measures renewed For several years now the SWOV website is equipped with the Index of road safety measures: an overview of measures taken to improve road safety, starting at the end of the nineteenth century. Over the past months, this list has been renewed and updated. It now also contains measures taken during the last few years. SWOV makes sure that the Index of road safety measures will be updated regularly. New laws or rules that have impact on road safety, will be included in the list immediately. The Index is now easy to find at www.swov.nl by clicking on Research. SWOV realizes that the Index of road safety measures is not complete. Therefore, we’d appreciate it if you could inform us on missing measures, by sending an email to info@swov.nl. |
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| Conferences and meetings | |||||||||||||||
| SWOV workshop: research into road safety policy On 16 and 17 November 2009, SWOV organizes the international workshop Scientific Research on Road Safety Management. This workshop focuses on the methodological aspects of ex-post and ex-ante assessments of road safety policy. Approximately 50 experts from all over the world will participate in this workshop. More information about the purpose of this workshop and the preliminary programme can be found here.
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