Sustainable Safety version 3 : backgrounds and elaboration of the updated road safety vision : substantiation of the second advanced Sustainable Safety vision for the period 2018-2030. Twenty-five years ago, Sustainable Safety was introduced: a shared vision of governments and road safety professionals to tackle road hazards in the Netherlands. In 2005, a first update of the vision for the period up to 2020 followed, which, a few years later, was followed by an evaluation of the implementation and effectiveness of Sustainable Safety until then. In recent decades the implementation of various Sustainable Safety measures has contributed to a considerable reduction in the number of road crash casualties in the Netherlands. However, there are still more than 600 road deaths and an estimated number of more than 20,000 serious road injuries per year. In addition, various societal developments have a direct or indirect effect on our traffic system. That is why, 25 years after the birth of Sustainable Safety – and 12.5 years after the first update – it is time to critically reassess the vision again. We have named this updated vision 'Sustainable Safety version 3'. The basis of the vision update is presented in two background reports. The first report (Part 1) outlines the context for the update. Three topics have been studied: the current traffic (safety) situation, the societal trends that may have an effect on road safety, and the most important ideas for the future. The second report (Part 2) discusses the foundation and substantive elaboration of Sustainable Safety version 3 itself, more specifically on the basis of five (partially new) safety principles. With this update of Sustainable Safety we look forward to the period 2018-2030. In doing so, we will follow various national and international developments, such as the Dutch Road Safety Manifesto signed by dozens of organizations in April 2017 and the OECD call for a safe system approach in road traffic. Sustainable Safety aims to provide a substantiated framework for the further development of national road safety policy such as this will takes shape later in 2018 in the Strategic Plan Road Safety 2030.
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