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This study provides quantitative evaluations of these benefits and shows the importance of driver compliance with VSLs. VISSIM and the technique of simulated vehicle conflicts (Surrogate Safety Assessment Model) were used in the study. To validate the safety analysis, an attempt was made to correlate the simulated vehicle conflicts with historic crashes. Three scenarios of traffic conditions were considered: heavily congested, lightly congested, and uncongested. Each scenario was further examined under four driver compliance levels: low, medium, high, and very high. The results con-firmed that the VSL had safety and operational benefits for motorway traffic. The system had the highest safety benefits during highly congested traffic conditions, followed by lightly congested conditions, and the least during uncongested conditions. 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