COSTING ROAD ACCIDENTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

The objective of this Note is to advise economists, planners and engineers in developing countries on a workable method that can be used to cost road accidents. There are many different methods and approaches to this particular problem; it must be stressed that no single method is ideal and that a considerable amount of data needs to be collected whatever method is used. This Road Note attempts to explain the importance of costing road accidents in developing countries and outlines in Section 2 the various methods that can be used to do this. Section 3 describes how to use the (preferred) Gross Output method and Section 4 presents a case study of its use in practice. Finally an Appendix presents results of the possible effects of including accident savings in a number of highway cost-benefit analyses. (A)

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  Transport and Road Research Laboratory

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  OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

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• Authors:
  • Jacobs, G
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 17 p.
• Serial:
  • OVERSEAS ROAD NOTE 10
  • Publisher: Transport and Road Research Laboratory
  • ISSN: 0951-8987

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Costs; Crashes; Developing countries; Methodology
• Geographic Terms: Cyprus; India; Jordan
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 224: Cost; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 8026: Cyprus; 150: Developing countries; 8045: India; 8054: Jordan; 9102: Method
• Subject Areas: Finance; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00735366
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 29 1997 12:00AM