Strategic research initiative: road safety (Strategisk instituttsatsing: trafikksikkerhet)

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The project proposes research in three main areas: (1) Basic questions and methodological issues, which include accident reporting and accident modelling, the valuation of road safety and the evaluation of road safety measures. (2) Interactions between ro ad users, system elements, and technology, in which the main areas include the high risk faced by young and inexperienced drivers, elderly road users, observation of road user behaviour in natural settings, intelligent transport systems and behavioural ad aptation and effects of promoting non-motorised transport. (3) Factors influencing road safety and road safety policy, which comprises public acceptance of safety levels and safety measures, safety management and organisation and cross fertilisation of sa fety theories between different modes of transport. Please see attached project description for additional detail.