Evaluation of a stimulation plan for municipalities in the Netherlands

✍ Scribed by Fred Wegman; Jan van Selm; Michiel Herweijer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 895 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0925-7535
• DOI: 10.1016/0925-7535(91)90015-e

✦ Synopsis

In 1987 the Dutch Government attempted to intensify road safety policy and launched the Stimulation Plan 'Actie -25%', directed at municipalities. Central to the philosophy behind the Plan is the thought that a financial bonus would stimulate municipalities to broaden and enhance their road safety policy. Every participating municipality received an initial grant. The Plan period covered 1987, 1988 and 1989. At the end of every year the number of road casualties had to be 5% less than the reference, in 1988 10% and in 1989 15%. If this drop was achieved the municipality received an achievement bonus.

An evaluation study was carried out in which two central questions were at issue: "Did 'Actie -25%' lead to fewer road accident casualties?"

and "In which ways did the organisation of