Highway Fatal Accidents and Travel Densities

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Brodsky, Harold, author.

Conference Name:

SAE International Congress & Exposition (1981-02-23 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1981

Summary:

The fatal accident rate on rural highways should theoretically increase with an increase in travel density. One empirical study of this relationship, however, reported a negative correlation. This correlation is suspect because a common component, vehicle-miles, appears in the denominator of fatal accident rate and in the numerator of travel densities. In our paper two alternative methods of correlation were used, but still no evidence for a positive relationship was found. Apparently certain density associated variables, such as quality of emergency medical service, counteract the theoretically expected trend

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Publisher Number:

810324

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