As a result, various DMOs are coordinated by the mayor of the largest municipality in the safety region in the Netherlands, whereas in Germany the coordination is distributed over three levels: districts, regions and states.
Reacting to the trend, consumer groups and auto clubs have expressed concern about the extent to which this ploy might be used by greedy municipalities not as safety measures but as inexpensive, high-technology speed traps to bolster local revenues.
This perspective is represented by two groups of actors, namely traffic planners in municipalities and traffic safety engineers at the former SRA (now National Transport Administration).
The observed lower rate of the most acute cases in the remote municipalities raises serious safety questions.
These strategies are also revealed to increase transparency of the divergent motivations of RLC vendors, municipalities, policy makers and safety advocates.
In the study setting, it was never questioned whether the municipalities obliged to effectuate safety promotion under the Civil Protection Act had an infrastructure in place comparable to that available for the bureaucratically organized agencies dealing with safety problems, e.g. the agency for road injury control.
This municipality wished to include several safety demands, for example, new alcohol locks and three-point safety belts.
Most municipalities of this size were reported by the representatives from the ed municipalities to have a more integrated safety network compared with adjacent, smaller municipalities, and to be big enough for a sufficient number of discussion partners.
Concurrent interventions that improve cycling safety combined with municipality specific helmet legislation are two possible explanations.
Injury prevention interventions could mitigate the impact of injuries on health, and at the moment a research project is running to explore what the success factors are for municipality based injury preventative and safety promotion work [ 3].
