Amenability to treatment for various traffic safety problems

Abstract

This thesis investigated the amenability to treatment for different traffic safety problems and examined how this could be measured. Amenability to treatment means all the prospects of implementing measures that will reduce the size of a road safety problem or at best eliminate the problem. Through the examination of the amenability to treatment of a certain traffic safety problem, the best measures to resolve or reduce a traffic safety problem can be determined. This thesis thoroughly examined the different dimensions of amenability to treatment by means of a literature study. Subsequently, the amenability to treatment of three important traffic safety problems in Belgium were investigated, namely speeding, driving under influence of alcohol and seat belt use. The amenability to treatment was applied on the safety problem as on the measures which could be taken to resolve this problem. The problem can be studied through three main criteria, that are the magnitude, the public support a