Road fatalities, modal split and Smeed's Law

Ian Smith

Applied Economics Letters, 1999, vol. 6, issue 4, 215-217

Abstract: The international variation in road death rates is investigated using cross-sectional data for 19 countries. It is proposed that road fatality rates are influenced by modal substitution between relatively vulnerable trips by foot and bicycle, and motorized journeys which have a smaller exposure to risk of fatal injury. Although available data do not permit a direct test of this hypothesis, regression results suggest that motor vehicle use is inversely associated with death on the roads across OECD countries all else equal.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1080/135048599353366

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