DESIGN FOR NASS: A NATIONAL ACCIDENT SAMPLING SYSTEM. VOLUME II. APPENDICES

A design is presented for a national accident investigation program based on sampling theory. By limiting the number of investigations within a strict sampling plan it is possible to record sufficient detail about each accident to produce national estimates of injury, property damage, and other accident characteristics which will be useful in cost-benefit analyses. The system described has three major facets--a program for continuous acquisition of data of a random sample of all towaway-pedestrian-bicycle-motorcycle accidents occurring in the U.S., a program for occasional acquisition of additional data on selected topics quickly and on-call, and a program for conducting in-depth or multidisciplinary accident investigations for accidents of particular interest.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Volume 1, PB-254 038.
• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Safety Research Institute

  Huron Parkway and Baxter Road
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • O'Day, J
  • Wolfe, A
  • Kaplan, R
• Publication Date: 1976-5

Media Info

• Pagination: 194 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggregates; Benefit cost analysis; Bicycles; Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crashes; Data collection; Information processing; Injuries; Loss and damage; Motor vehicles; Motorcycles; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Pedestrians; Property; Research; Sampling; Slate; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Motor vehicle accidents; Property damage
• Old TRIS Terms: Expanded slate aggregates
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00137439
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: UM-HSRI-SA-75-14-2 Final Rpt., DOT-HS-801-914
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-4-00890
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 16 1976 12:00AM