dc.contributor.author | Larsson, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Dekker, Sidney WA | |
dc.contributor.author | Tingvall, Claes | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T11:19:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T11:19:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.date.modified | 2011-08-12T06:20:40Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0925-7535 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ssci.2009.10.006 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/39936 | |
dc.description.abstract | In other hazardous complex socio-technical systems in society, e.g. nuclear power and aviation, systems-theoretical assumptions are considered a promising way to better understand and manage safety. In this paper, two fundamental approaches to road safety were assessed in the light of a systems theory approach. One approach, is based on a premise where individual road-users are solely responsible when crashes occur. In that case countermeasures are aimed at altering the behavior of the road-user in order to adapt him/her to the road transport system. The other approach, the so-called zero-tolerance position, or Vision Zero approach, to road safety is built around two axioms; the system must be adapted to the psychological and physical conditions and limitations of the human being and the responsibility for road safety must be shared between the road-users and the designers and professional operators of the system. It was found that the most important determinants of systems theory are basically not present in the road-user approach. However, even if the Vision Zero approach clearly takes step towards systems theory, it does leave room for articulating even more features of systems theory. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 1167 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 1174 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 9 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Safety Science | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 48 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Engineering | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Biomedical and clinical sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Policy and administration not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Psychology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 40 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 32 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 440799 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 52 | |
dc.title | The need for a systems theory approach to road safety | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.date.issued | 2010 | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Dekker, Sidney | |