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Title:

Mobility Management Traffic Safety Impacts

Accession Number:

01024520

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper investigates the traffic safety impacts of mobility management (also called Transportation Demand Management). It analyzes the relationships between vehicle mileage and crashes. Although many factors affect crash rates, all else being equal a change in total mileage tends to cause a similar change in total crashes. Conventional planning often overlooks the traffic safety impacts that result from changes in mileage. As a result it tends to undervalues the costs of policies that cause mileage to increase, and undervalues mobility management programs that reduce mileage. Increased safety appears to be one of the largest potential benefits of mobility management, and mobility management programs are likely to be among the most cost effective ways to improve traffic safety.

Monograph Accession #:

01020180

Report/Paper Numbers:

06-1475

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Litman, Todd Alexander

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2006

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2006-1-22 to 2006-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

CD-ROM

Features:

Figures (4) ; References; Tables (4)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I80: Accident Studies

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2006 Paper #06-1475

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Mar 3 2006 10:41AM