FATALITY RATES FOR SURFACE FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION, 1963-1968

The report identifies the need for an index of safety for freight transportation, suggests that the appropriate index might be fatalities per billion ton-miles, and then calculates these statistics for the surface modes of transportation. A technical appendix discusses data limitations. /NTSB/

• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20594
• Publication Date: 1971-8-18

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 13 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commodities; Fatalities; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Ground transportation; Indexes (Information management); Intermodal transportation; Mode S; Safety; Safety and security; Ton miles; Transportation safety
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221495
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Statistical Reference File, TSC
• Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB-STS-71-4 One-Time
• Files: TSR, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 20 1971 12:00AM