Implementation

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• Implementation
• Paul Wesemann

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Preconditions for implementation
Knowledgedissemination
Knowledgedevelopment
Financing
Organization
Quality assurance
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How to pass on knowledge to users?

• Many target groups, complex message
• Embed in education and refresher courses
• Proposition develop comprehensive vision
• Knowledge made to measure

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How to translate general knowledgeto concrete
solutions?

• International research
• Empirical research in the Netherlands
• Cooperation with practice
• Evaluation of practical experiments
• Basic data national and regional
• Proposition research programme

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How to finance measures? (1)

• 100 to 200 million extra voor regional
  infrastructure
• Robust investment
• Long term sources
• Compensation for human losses fatalities
• Fund for prevention of fatalities
• Road pricing

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How to finance measures? (2)

• Short term sources
• Raise fuel taxes
• Raise state contribution to regions
• Transparent considerations by regions
• Money from fines
• Proposition Commission Paying for Sustainably
  Safe Infrastructure'

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How to organize policy implementation?

• Changes
• Decentralization
• Flexible funds for lower governments
• Seek cooperation of social organizations
• Uniformize road layout
• Standards together with local governments
• Road Safety Audits
• Monitoring and evaluation
• New chances for safety
• Active participation in plan making
• Distribute state contribution among provinces and
  framework act areas
• Bring in all sectors during preparation
• Transparent weighing and performance agreements
• Proposition road safety rides with integral plans

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How to assure quality?

• Problems
• No uniformity, sub optimal, inconsistent
• Secundairy precondition for quality
• Core elements
• Clear and controllable quality requirements
• Information to construction companies
• Independent supervisor
• Mix of tools for action when quality is
  insufficient
• Functions
• Support of own quality ambition
• Remove non-commitment
• Signal deviations
• Proposal further research of the advantages and
  disadvantages in preparation for political
  decision

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Finally

• Please co-operate !