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Johansson C, Fladenius A, Johansson PA, Jonson T (1999) Shape. The Stockholm study on health effects of air pollution and their economic consequences. Part I. NO2 and particulate matter in Stockholm-concentrations and population exposure. Swedish National Road Administration, Stockholm... 

Acknowledgment The Swedish National Road Administration and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning have supported the present study. 

We will here use the Swedish National Road Administration (SNRA) as an example. This authority has overall responsibihty for traffic safety in Sweden and has direct responsibility for government roads. In 1997, the Swedish parliament decided that the so-called zero-mindset or vision zero philosophy regarding traffic fatalities and severe injuries should guide long-term traffic-safety work (Swedish National Road Administration, 1999). SNRA has the main responsibility for the traffic safety results, although it does not have all the necessary traffic-safety measures at its command. 

Swedish National Road Administration, 1999. Road Traffic Safety Report 1998. 

I have also been dependent on many people for source input to the book. I have used examples from the project work of my students at NTNU. Here I especially want to mention Gro Blindheim, Borge Godhavn, Bjornar Andre Haug, Jorn Lindtvedt, Vidar Tuven and Elisabeth Wendel. Karsten Boe at Norsk Hydro has been my discussion partner in the area of risk acceptance criteria. Bengt Elf at ASG Road Transport, Lennart Svensson at Volvo Lastvagnar AB and Thomas Lekander at the Swedish National Road Administration have helped me with input to the chapter on traffic safety. 

We are indebted to Professor Claes Tingvaal (director of Traffic Safety at the Swedish National Road Administration) for describing the current Swedish position and allowing us to include his description. 

There was one additional requirement for the initial standards since they had to be issued by January 31, 1967, and that was that they be based on existing standards. The initial 20 motor vehicle safety standards evolved from 22 voluntary practices recommended by the Society of Automotive Engineers, 19 General Services Administration standards, and standards of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Swedish National Road Board, Uniform Vehicle... 

Between 2008 and 2011, the Swedish Transport Administration reviewed the speed limits on the state rural road network in Sweden. Guidelines were established for different types of roads, and the long-term vision was that speed limits should be adapted to the safety classification of each road. A new set of speed limits (i.e. 80, 100 and 120 km/h) was introduced on rural roads to complement the previously used limits of 70, 90 and 110 km/h. Earlier studies have investigated the effects of new speed limits on the rural road network [VAD 13, VAD 10, VAD 12a]. In the present study, we reuse speed data collected in the national evaluation of new speed limits these speed data come from both mbe measurements and speed cameras. 

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