REINFORCING THE RULES OR INTEGRATING BEHAVIORAL-RESPONSES INTO ROAD PLANNING

Road planning is based on technical rules, know-how acquired from expe rience and professional expertise. A more ergonomics approach to road planning and safety analyses the psychological procedures used by the drivers. Every intervention on road network has an influence on safety . Increasing the coherency of all the interventions in the same area i s the only possible way of producing areas with a better level of secu rity. This paper deals with safety procedures, diagnostics and tools w hich can be used at different levels of intervention. (C) 1998 Publish ed by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.