relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4498/
title: Traffic Safety and Spatial Planning: Exploring Relationships between Road Design, Risky Driving Behaviour and Traffic Accidents in Groningen, the Netherlands
creator: Rood, Max
description: The decades-long decrease in yearly traffic deaths in the Netherlands has stagnated in recent years. This has created a renewed interest on the part of Dutch institutions in interventions which may further increase traffic safety, including spatial interventions targeting driver behaviour. Academic work on these spatial measures for traffic safety remains scarce, however, as does research targeting risky driving behaviour specifically. This research applies quantitative analysis to secondary data from the province of Groningen in order to expand the body of knowledge on the linkages between road design, risky driving behaviour and traffic accidents in the Netherlands in both urban and rural contexts, investigating factors such as network density, roadside features and speed limits. Findings suggest that road design and urban planning factors such as road type, speed limits and road width, as well as urban planning factors such as network density and address density are, to varying degrees, significant predictors of risky driving incidents and traffic accidents, and that risky driving incidents and traffic accidents are correlated with one another. Fatal traffic accidents are more difficult to predict, however, and the relationship between risky driving and traffic accidents depends on context.
date: 2024
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4498/1/Traffic%20Safety%20and%20Spatial%20Planning-Final.pdf
identifier:   Rood, Max  (2024) Traffic Safety and Spatial Planning: Exploring Relationships between Road Design, Risky Driving Behaviour and Traffic Accidents in Groningen, the Netherlands.  Master thesis.