ACCIDENT-TYPES, PRACTICE, RESEARCH, PRACTICE, RESEARCH

We do not expect a doctor to prescribe aspirin if a person has contractedcholera, yet we find people doing the equivalent when it comes to road accidents. Road accidents are not all the same kind and there is no single treatment that affects them uniformly. The problem originally was to devise a system of classification capable of being used by different groups ofcoders and produce substantially the same results. This paper describes the introduction of the accident-type method into Australian computer datasystems and the recent production of costs for accident-types. The dual tool, accident-types and their costs, can be applied to a wide variety of road traffic problems from the traditional area of hazardous location identification and treatment to the new area of IVHS for collision avoidance devices. (a) For the covering abstract of this conference see IRRD abstract no. 861222.

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• Corporate Authors:

  ARRB

  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • ANDREASSEN, D
• Conference:
  • 17TH ARRB CONFERENCE, GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND, 15-19 AUGUST 1994; PROCEEDINGS; VOLUME 17, PART 5
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 105-31

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Classification; Computer programs; Conferences; Costs; Crashes; Mathematical analysis
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 6471: Analysis (math); 8513: Classification; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 8645: Software
• Subject Areas: Finance; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00669797
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 23 1994 12:00AM