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Title: ALLOCATING THE COSTS OF MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES BETWEEN VEHICLE TYPES
Accession Number: 00756141
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: When a truck and an automobile are involved in a crash, the harm to occupants tends to vary with the weight of the vehicles involved. In determining the appropriate level of government expenditures for traffic safety, costs in multivehicle crashes involving different vehicle types must be allocated between occupants and nonoccupants of a particular vehicle type. Four methods for allocating costs among different vehicle types are considered, corresponding to different perspectives, including that of occupants of a vehicle and that of society under different property right assignments. Costs based on the four allocation methods for the United States as a whole and per vehicle mile are also estimated. The allocation method was found to have large effects on the relative magnitude of costs.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1635, Safety Analysis Related to Highway Design, Crash Costs, and Traffic Records Systems; Methodologies for Evaluating Safety Improvements.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Miller, TLevy, D TSpicer, R SLestina, D CPagination: p. 81-87
Publication Date: 1998
Serial: ISBN: 0309065070
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Nov 9 1998 12:00AM
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