Traffic safety - Revision history

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Albert at 17:11, 7 December 2012

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 ==How to improve traffic safety==
-Safety can be improved by reducing the chances of a driver making an error, or by designing vehicles to reduce the severity of crashes that do occur<ref name="ftn12"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_traffic_safety</ref>.
+Safety can be improved by reducing the chances of a driver making an error, or by designing vehicles to reduce the severity of crashes that do occur<ref name="ftn12">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_traffic_safety</ref> ([[vehicle safety]]).
 It is potentially easier to inflict damage to a situation with a low traffic safety. Therefore (and also for security issues) it is important to create preconditions for a high traffic safety situation. This can be done in two ways, firstly to create a safe road network, and secondly to use safe vehicles. The urban planner can help to create a safe road network, however, has no influence on the safety of vehicles.

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	The term '''traffic safety''' refers to the risk of a person being killed or seriously injured while using the traffic network as a pedestrian, cyclist or user of public or private transport.		The term '''traffic safety''' refers to the risk of a person being killed or seriously injured while using the traffic network as a pedestrian, cyclist or user of public or private transport.

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 The term '''traffic safety''' refers to the risk of a person being killed or seriously injured while using the traffic network as a pedestrian, cyclist or user of public or private  transport.

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 The term '''traffic safety''' refers to the risk of a person being killed or seriously injured while using the traffic network as a pedestrian, cyclist or user of public or private  transport.
 == The importance of traffic safety==
 The importance of traffic safety is obvious; traffic accounts for many deaths and injuries.  According to the World Health Organization, road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.26 million deaths worldwide in the year 2000. The average rate was 20.8 per 100,000 people, 30.8 for males, 11.0 for females <ref name="safetystat"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate </ref>. Measures can be taken in order to reduce the number of casualties and injuries greatly.
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-|Functionality of roads||Monofunctionality of roads as either through roads, distributor roads, or access roads in a hierarchically structured road network
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 == Vulnerable road users safety ==
 Safety of vulnerable road users concerns safety of cyclists and pedestrians.
-A group of road users can be defined as ‘vulnerable’ in a number of ways, such as by the amount of protection in traffic (e.g. pedestrians and cyclists) or by the amount of task capability (e.g. the young and the elderly). Vulnerable road users do not usually have a protective 'shell', and also the difference in mass between the colliding opponents is often an important factor. Vulnerable road users can be spared by limiting the driving speed of motorized vehicles and separating unequal road user types as much as possible. Adapting motor vehicles (e.g. by side-underrun-protection for trucks and collision-friendly car fronts) can lessen the injury severity of vulnerable road users. In crashes involving only vulnerable road users and no other road users, it is mainly the infrastructure that is important for the prevention and limitation of injury <ref name="SWOV"> SWOV factsheet Vulnerable Road Users </ref>.
+A group of road users can be defined as ‘vulnerable’ in a number of ways, such as by the amount of protection in traffic (e.g. pedestrians and cyclists) or by the amount of task capability (e.g. the young and the elderly). Vulnerable road users do not usually have a protective 'shell', and also the difference in mass between the colliding opponents is often an important factor. Vulnerable road users can be spared by limiting the driving speed of motorized vehicles and separating unequal road user types as much as possible. Adapting motor vehicles (e.g. by side-underrun-protection for trucks and collision-friendly car fronts) can lessen the injury severity of vulnerable road users. In crashes involving only vulnerable road users and no other road users, it is mainly the infrastructure that is important for the prevention and limitation of injury <ref name="SWOV"> SWOV factsheet Vulnerable Road Users. http://www.swov.nl/rapport/Factsheets/UK/FS_Vulnerable_road_users.pdf </ref>.
 Other preventive measures that are often taken or recommended are wearing a helmet (cyclists), infrastructure adaptations such as pedestrian crossings, separate bicycle lanes etc. Recent developments include safety systems in cars such as collision avoidance systems, night vision and the bicycle airbag.