Each year there are about 1,000 road deaths in the Netherlands and many thousands of road users are injured. Fortunately, these numbers are slowly but surely declining. Compared with many other countries, Dutch traffic is among the safest in the world. However, good as it may be, there are still too many traffic casualties every year. Every year, a disaster occurs that society does not experience as such and therefore does not deal with as such. The average Dutchman does not really seem to care about all these anonymous deaths: road crashes are simply part of life.
Dutch National Bicycle Safety Research Agenda – p.1
Electric vehicles: road safety effects for cyclists – p.2
Column “Safety in numbers: more cyclists, lower risks?” – p.3
Cycling fatalities in blind spot crashes – p.4
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment on bicycle safety – p.5
Infrastructure and bicycle crashes – p.6
Music and phone calls while cycling – p.8
Bicycle helmets: the pros and cons – p.9
From car to bicycle – p.10
The Department for Transport commissioned TRL to conduct a literature review to consider the role of infrastructure in relation to the safety of cyclists and their interaction with other road users. It was undertaken as part of the wider research programme, Road User Safety and Cycling, being led by TRL. Overall, it proved problematic to draw firm conclusions from the literature.
Summary 1 Planning bicycle facilities 1.1 The role of the bicycle 1.2 Bicycle-friendly infrastructure 1.3 Integral design 1.4 A plan as the basis 2 Functional design 2.1 The cyclist as a design parameter 2.2 Main requirements for a bicycle-friendly infrastructure 2.3 Function, form and use 2.4 The bicycle and sustainable safety 3 Basic information 3.1 Bicycle dimensions 3.2 Dimensions of bicycle parking facilities 3.3 Speed, design speed, accelerating and braking 3.4 Stability, zig-zagging and the section of free space 3.5 Curves and visibility 3.6 Inclines 3.7 Weekly and daily patterns of
