Empirical Validation: Summary and Conclusions

Abstract

Rural roads are the most dangerous road category when the number of fatal accidents is used as the criterion. In order to improve safety on rural roads, a driver and driving behaviour model was developed in a first step. In this model, a relationship between perception, behaviour and accidents is proposed that allows the formulation and testing of hypotheses. The conclusions derived from the testing of these hypotheses were expected to increase insight into how behaviour is determined on rural roads and how rural road safety can be increased.