TO BELT OR NOT TO BELT: SHOULD FLORIDA MANDATE INSTALLATION OF SAFETY RESTRAINTS IN LARGE SCHOOL BUSES?
A summary of a report that focused on the many issues related to the installation of safety restraints and various other feasible safety investment options for large school buses in Florida to make a safety investment option recommendation to the Florida legislature is presented. To accomplish this objective the existing literature was reviewed and evaluated to draw conclusions from the accumulated evidence. In addition, two supplemental analyses were performed: a safety investment cost-benefit analysis and a descriptive analysis of Florida school bus accident data. Based on the evidence gathered from the literature review and the results from the two supplemental analyses, it was concluded that the installation of safety restraints will not significantly improve the overall safety performance of large school buses in Florida. The potential benefit to be obtained from the installation and use of safety restraints, quantified by the annual fatalities and injuries prevented per annual dollar invested, was shown to be diminutive and thus not cost-effective. However, other feasible safety investment options were shown to be significantly more cost-effective in terms of their potential to prevent fatalities and injuries per annual dollar invested.
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- This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1485, Human Performance and Safety in Highway, Traffic, and ITS Systems. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
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Authors:
- Baltes, Michael R
- Publication Date: 1995
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 97-104
- Monograph Title: Human performance and safety in highway, traffic, and ITS systems
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 1485
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Cost effectiveness; Crash data; Fatalities; Guides to the literature; Injuries; Literature reviews; Manual safety belts; Prevention; Safety; School buses
- Uncontrolled Terms: Injury prevention
- Geographic Terms: Florida
- Subject Areas: Highways; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00713541
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Nov 13 1995 12:00AM