MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION DATA FILE. ENCODING AND TRANSCRIPTION OF NEW VARIABLES

Since 1969, the Highway Safety Research Institute at the University of Michigan has developed and maintained a computerized data set of all Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation (MDAI) reports. The main objective of the study was to improve the computerized information on fatal crashes in the MDAI data sets in two ways: (1) all fatal crashes were coded on a special form and a 'Fatal Factors File' or FFF data set was constructed from these forms, and (2) AIS coding for fatally injured occupants was redone to reflect the AIS76 modification to the injury scaling.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  Highway Safety Research Institute
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States 

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • GREEN, J A
  • Barhydt, W H
  • Compton, M J
  • MARSH IV, J C
• Publication Date: 1977-5

Media Info

• Pagination: 56 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Casualties; Coding systems; Computer programming; Crash investigation; Data files; Information retrieval; Injuries; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Motor vehicle accidents
• Old TRIS Terms: Coding
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00158980
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: UM-HSRI-77-11, DOT-HS-802-357
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-6-01303
• Files: NTIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 15 2002 12:00AM