O1: Road Safety
Module Leader: Hans de Jong
Hans de Jong has a degree in traffic engineering and works is a free-lance consultant/Sustainable Transport Specialist at I-ce and part time lecturer at EUROconnect since 1996.
Grom 1977-1980 he was a traffic engineer at the Dutch pedestrian organisation and from 1980-2006 he was a road safety engineer and later a policy maker at the Dutch Ministry
of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, involved in the national policy plans. During the 90's he was a member of the national proect group Master plan Bicycle of the Ministry of Transport
Aim of the Module
To view road safety as an integrated part of traffic and transportation policy, and to develop skills to analyse and influence road traffic safety and the use of possible measures and policies.
Contents
Road safety in relation to traffic and transportation policy
Social impact
Strategic approaches
Policies for accident reduction
Accident records and accident analysis
Hazardous road locations
Analysing and influencing road user behaviour
Road safety education and the driver
Road safety in the future
Accident reduction measures
Sustainable road safety
Road safety in Europe
Learning Outcomes
To be aware of different aspects of road safety: social, political, personal.
To understand how attitudes towards road safety have developed over the years and describe the remedial measures taken.
To understand the main driver behaviour models.
To understand the phase model (a description of the accident process).
To analyse and use accident data.
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