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ALLOCATING THE COSTS OF MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES BETWEEN VEHICLE TYPES

Accession Number:

00756141

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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
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Miller, T
Levy, D T
Spicer, R S
Lestina, D C

Pagination:

p. 81-87

Publication Date:

1998

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1635
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309065070

Features:

References (33) ; Tables (5)

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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