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dc.contributor.authorLarsson, Peter
dc.contributor.authorDekker, Sidney WA
dc.contributor.authorTingvall, Claes
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:19:26Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:19:26Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-08-12T06:20:40Z
dc.identifier.issn0925-7535
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ssci.2009.10.006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/39936
dc.description.abstractIn 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1167
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1174
dc.relation.ispartofissue9
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSafety Science
dc.relation.ispartofvolume48
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEngineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiomedical and clinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode40
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode32
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440799
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode52
dc.titleThe need for a systems theory approach to road safety
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDekker, Sidney


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