A FRAMEWORK FOR COSTING ACCIDENTS AND ACCIDENT TYPES

Deriving the correct costs for accidents of various severity levels by using unit cost per person -casualty class requires a knowledge of all the casualties of various classes within a specific severity level. If these data are not known, the accident costs are underestimated. This paper shows the correct structuring of data to derive the costs of accidents of various severity levels. Different accident types have different average severities and differing numbers of vehicles involved. The evaluation of countermeasures must take cognizance of the effects on various accident types and thus in turn the different average unit costs of various accident types. For example a fatal "right angle" accident has a greater cost than does the all -type fatal accident, while a fatal pedestrian accident has less cost. This paper also shows how the costs of accidents of various accident types may be derived. The accident data of the state of Victoria, Australia, for 1978 are used to illustrate the procedure. (Author/TRRL)

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  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

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  Oxford OX30BW,    
• Authors:
  • Andreassend, D C
• Publication Date: 1985-4

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 111-117
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calculation; Classification; Costs; Countermeasures; Crash severity; Crash types; Crashes; Fatalities; Injuries; Injury severity; Methodology
• Uncontrolled Terms: Accident costs; Computation
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 6464: Calculation; 8513: Classification; 224: Cost; 1602: Fatality; 2163: Injury; 9102: Method; 1623: Severity (accid, injury)
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00450944
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-038 989
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 31 1985 12:00AM