An Economic Evaluation of the Australian Federal ‘Black Spot’ Road Safety Program. Volume 3: Transport Policy

The paper evaluates of the black spot program. Estimates of engineering treatment benefits are provided using the crash-severity and crash-type methods of costing crashes. The program is estimated to have generated a net present value of one billion dollars and benefits of around four dollars per dollar of expenditure.

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  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
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• Authors:
  • Motha, Joe
  • Musidlak, Bogey
  • Williams, Catharina
• Conference:
  • World Transport Research. Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Sydney , Australia
  • Date: 1995-7-16 to 1995-7-21
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 137-149
• Monograph Title: World Transport Research. Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash severity; Crashes; Economic development; Economic factors; High risk locations; Highway safety; Methodology
• Uncontrolled Terms: Crash type
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01079854
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0080427707
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 25 2007 10:25AM