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FRAMEWORK FOR CONSISTENT TRAFFIC AND ACCIDENT STATISTICAL DATA BASES

The OECD Road Transport Research Scientific Expert Group T8 "Framework for Consistent Traffic and Accident Statistical Data Bases" was confronted with the old problem of the inconsistency of data between countries, and the lack of some data altogether, especially traffic data for use as a measure of exposure to road accidents. Instead of carrying out yet another inventory of available data, the group decided that the best way to achieve harmonization and completeness was to create an international database. As a first step the existing aggregated international database of the German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) was chosen in the short term to form the source for international comparisons of road safety. All OECD countries not yet contributing will be requested to contribute their annual data. Secondly, based on the experience of many road researchers, and in particular the OECD Road Transport Research Programme, a list of variables and values for a future disaggregated database (at the individual accident level) was established. OECD members will also be requested to contribute their annual data to this database. It is hoped that by contributing data to international databases those countries with definitions and classifications deviating from the Vienna Convention of Road Traffic will adjust them, and those countries not yet collecting agreed data will do so. A recomendation is made to set up a new, continuous OECD group to actually implement and maintain the two databases.

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  • Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 73 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00478067
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: HS-041 250
  • Files: HSL, TRIS, ATRI
  • Created Date: Dec 31 1996 12:00AM