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Title:

COSTS OF MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES

Accession Number:

00474327

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309040620

Abstract:

Motor vehicle accident costs are an important component in benefit-cost evaluations of highway safety improvements. A recent study by Miller et al. for the Federal Highway Administration evaluated various approaches to accident cost estimation and presented state-of-the-art societal costs of motor vehicle accidents, based largely on a 1983 accident cost study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The principal shortcoming of the Miller et al. study is its failure to express accident costs in a form that can be directly used with state accident data in benefit-cost calculations. The objective of this paper is to develop accident costs that can be used directly with state accident data in benefit-cost evaluations of highway improvements. The costs in Miller et al., which were expressed in per-victim and per-vehicle terms, provide the basis for the per-accident costs developed in this paper. These accident costs are based on accident severities and on the A-B-C injury severity scale commonly used in state accident records, rather than on the Maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale (MAIS) used by NHTSA and Miller et al. Accident data from five states are used in deriving the accident costs. Data from the National Crash Severity Study (NCSS) and the National Accident Sampling System (NASS) are used to relate percentage distributions of injury severities by the MAIS and A-B-C scales. The accident costs presented in this paper can be used directly with state accident data, thereby facilitating the use of state-ofthe-art accident cost estimates in benefit-cost analyses of highway improvements.

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Traffic Records and Accident Analysis.

Monograph Accession #:

00495821

Report/Paper Numbers:

HS-039 849

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Rollins, John B
McFarland, William F

Pagination:

pp 1-7

Publication Date:

1986

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1068
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309040620

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures (2) ; References (4) ; Tables (11)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Accident costs; Severity

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Economics; Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I81: Accident Statistics

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Oct 31 1990 12:00AM

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