HSRI ACCIDENT DATA BANKS

IN AN EFFORT TO CREATE A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF ACCIDENT DATA, THE HIGHWAY SAFETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE HAS ACQUIRED MASS ACCIDENT DATA FROM SPECIFIC MICHIGAN AREAS AND FROM SELECTED AREAS OF THE UNITED STATES. THESE DATA HAVE BEEN BUILT INTO DIGITAL DATA FILES FOR ANALYSIS ON THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN'S 360/67 COMPUTER. EIGHTEEN OF THESE FILES ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS ARTICLE. DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH FILE INCLUDE DATA ORIGIN, ACQUISITION TECHNIQUES, FILE SIZE, FILE COMPOSITION, AND ANALYSIS COMBINATIONS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • pp 1-3, 1 TAB
• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Safety Research Institute

  /Hit Lab Reports
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • Darby, R E
  • Brown, B Scott
• Publication Date: 1971-3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash investigation; Crashes; Data analysis; Data collection; Information systems; Mathematical analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Data systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221354
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 25 1971 12:00AM