Part 1. National road safety performance: Data, the emergence of two single-outcome modeling streams and public health

Marc Gaudry and Matthieu de Lapparent

Research in Transportation Economics, 2013, vol. 37, issue 1, 6-19

Abstract: This first part of the state-of-the art focuses on the origins of road safety modeling, covering data, early models and the public health context of model formulation and use.

Keywords: Observed road victims without crime; Road crimes without observed victims; Discrimination and moments of random variables; Unsustainable horse transport; Safer motor vehicle transport; Secular gains in kilometric road safety rates; Aggregate national data; Individual accident data; Bortkiewicz; Smeed; Weber; Gaussian; Poisson; Regression component; Public health knowhow; Mystery of 1972–1973 peak in road fatalities; Baby boomers reaching maturity; Intrinsic dangerousness of individuals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2012.02.001

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