THE NEED FOR DATA RELATING TO TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. LITERATURE STUDY
BEHOEFTE AAN GEGEVENS OVER VERKEERSONGEVALLEN. LITERATUURSTUDIE
This report gives an description of the history of accident registration in the Netherlands and the development of an Integrated Traffic Accident Registration System (INVORS). The report defines the following user groups of accident-related data: the Central Statistical Bureau (CBS); insurers; the police and judicial authorities; national and regional policymaking bodies; road planners; and researchers. Since 1970, a series of inventories has been compiled to assess the specific data needs of the various user groups. The report gives a comprehensive list of the accident data which could be included in registrations. These inventories were compared with the basic police/Netherlands Transport Research Centre (AVV) Department for Statistics and Data Management (BG) registrations. The original list containing the recommended data as compiled for INVORS was found to contain largely the same data as the later inventories. The police/AVV-BG registrations contain far less information than is desirable. Nevertheless, these registrations provide a certain amount of data for all the elements on the list. Data for research purposes needs to be more complete and more accurate than data for policymaking. It was found that many users of data need a more complete and/or representative registration of accidents.
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Corporate Authors:
Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
Bezuidenhoutseweg 62
The Hague, Netherlands 2594 AW -
Authors:
- NOORDZIJ, P C
- Publication Date: 1995
Language
- Dutch
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 48 p.
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Serial:
- Issue Number: R-95-71
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Classification; Crashes; Data banks; Data files; Recording; Traffic
- Uncontrolled Terms: Input data
- Geographic Terms: Netherlands
- ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 8513: Classification; 8614: Database; 8634: Input data; 8078: Netherlands; 6969: Recording; 755: Traffic
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00725342
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Sep 26 1996 12:00AM