A COMPARISON OF FIVE TECHNIQUES OF MEASURING ROAD ACCIDENT EXPERIENCE

USING THE ACCIDENT-EXPERIENCE LEARNING CURVE (MODEL C), A TEST WAS MADE AS TO WHETHER THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS PER UNIT OF MILEAGE TRAVELED WOULD DECREASE AS CUMULATIVE MILEAGE INCREACED. OTHER MODELS WERE: NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS PER UNIT OF MILEAGE RELATED TO YEAR OF OCCURRENCE (MODEL A); NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS PER VEHICLE VOLUME, ALSO RELATED TO YEAR OF OCCURRENCE (MODEL B); NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS PER VEHICLE VOLUME, RELATED TO AVERAGE DISTANCE TRAVELED (MODEL D); AND A HYPERBOLIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS PER VEHICLE VOLUME AND CUMULATIVE MILES (MODEL E). THE RESULTS INDICATED THAT AN ACCIDENT- EXPERIENCE LEARNING CURVE PHENOMENON DOES EXIST. MODELS C AND E PROVED SUPERIOR TO THE REMAINING THREE.

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• Authors:
  • Greenberg, L
• Publication Date: 1971

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 167-75
• Serial:
  • Journal of Safety Research
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0022-4375
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00224375

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Forecasting; Hazards; Regression analysis; Risk assessment; Traffic volume
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mileage
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221910
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 17 1973 12:00AM