Method for assessing safety of routes in a road network

A Dijkstra, H Drolenga… - Transportation …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
In the Netherlands, the concept of sustainably safe traffic is the leading vision in road safety
policy and research. The main goal of a sustainably safe road transport system is to reduce
the annual number of road accident casualties to a fraction of the current levels. Important
requirements resulting from this vision are that trips follow safe roads as much as possible,
trips be as short as possible, and the quickest and safest routes coincide. Modeling route
choice will provide answers to the planning issues of sustainably safe traffic; however, the …

Assessing the safety of routes in a regional network

A Dijkstra - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2013 - Elsevier
In the Netherlands, the concept 'Sustainable Safety'is the leading vision in road safety policy
and research. The main goal of a sustainably safe road transport system is to reduce the
annual number of road crash casualties to a fraction of the current levels. An important
requirement that follows from this vision is that the quickest route and the safest route should
coincide. This paper focuses on the design of a method which enables the planner to
establish the safety effects of existing route choice, and also those of changes in route …