ANALYSIS OF METHODOLOGY FOR MEASURING NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY

The report covers a critique of current measures used by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to report and evaluate National Traffic Safety. The proposed measures emphasize the use of injury-severity levels and an extended set of driver-vehicle-highway descriptors to depict critical factors in National traffic patterns and trends. Recommendations address indicators to describe accident phenomena by driver and vehicle attributes, and to enlarge the number and detail of descriptors.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored in part by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Bureau of Standards

  Gaithersburg, MD  United States 

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Hendrickson, R G
  • Craw, A R
• Publication Date: 1974-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 43 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash investigation; Definitions; Indexing; Information processing; Measurement; Research; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Motor vehicle accidents
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00090513
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NBSIR-74-561 Final Rpt.
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 29 1975 12:00AM