Foreword

 

Advancing Sustainable Safety; National Road Safety Outlook for 2005-2020 is the sequel to Towards a sustainably safe road traffic (Koornstra et a., 1992). Advancing Sustainable Safety critically examines the Sustainable Safety vision. Adaptations were made where necessary, because we have learned since our initial steps on the way towards a sustainably safe traffic. Advancing insights and new developments have also prompted the update of this vision.

 

The book does not present a new vision, but provides a broad elaboration of Sustainable Safety. In this sense it can be called innovative. This book is not a policy memorandum. However, elements from this updated vision could in the future, be detailed to inspire the policy memoranda of all levels of government, social organizations, etc. Each chapter contains many recommendations that offer starting points in this direction.

 

Advancing Sustainable Safety is a SWOV initiative and SWOV is responsible for publishing it. Many people, both inside and outside SWOV, have contributed to this book.

Without exception, the authors of this book are experts in their fields. They are well informed of recent developments and have shown their creativity by using their knowledge to update Sustainable Safety vision. An important source of inspiration was the essay bundle entitled Thinking about sustainable safety (Wegman & Aarts, 2005).

 

Contributions to this book have been made by: Letty Aarts, Bart van Arem, Charlotte Bax, Lieke Berghout, Ragnhild Davidse, Henk van Gent, Charles Goldenbeld, Boudewijn Hoogvelt, Richard van der Horst, Theo Janssen, Martin de Jong, Boudewijn van Kampen, Mars Kerkhof, Joop Koppenjan, Maria Kuiken, Leo Kusters, René Mathijssen, Peter Morsink, Ingrid van Schagen, Chris Schoon, Divera Twisk, Erik Verhoef, Willem Vlakveld, Fred Wegman en Paul Wesemann. Sometimes it is quite obvious who the authors of a particular chapter are. However, there are also chapters in which this is less clear because they are the result of contributions from both SWOV researchers and external experts.

 

Guidelines

 

Under the button Advancing Sustainable Safety you will find a pdf document which can be opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader. If necessary this can be downloaded from the Internet without charge.

 

The complete text of the book is available. On the left, under the tab 'Bookmarks' you will find a survey of the contents in brief. You can read the book from beginning to end, or using the Bookmarks, go directly to the chapter that interests you.

 

Depending on the facilities available to you, you can also print the entire book. You can find more information about the authors that have contributed under About the authors. With Your comments you can e-mail us with comments or questions.

 

Advancing Sustainable Safety in brief

SWOV wishes the reader to be very inspired by this book and hopes that it will stimulate many to continue with Sustainable Safety.