STUDY OF SINGLE VEHICLE RURAL ACCIDENTS: A DESCRIPTION OF THE DATABASES CONSTRUCTED FOR THE STUDY

The victorian rural accident study was a joint initiative of the road traffic and road construction authorities. The aim of the study was to gain an understanding of single vehicle accidents on rural roads. This paper gives a brief description of the study and a detailed account of the data collected for each accident and the databases, constructed using dbase III, used for the study. The study coding manual is given in appendix e. The study was sponsored by the road construction authority and transport accident commission and is an updated version of report rn/88/2. (Author/TRRL)

Corporate Authors:
Victoria Road Safety and Traffic Authority, Australia

854 Glenferrie Road
Hawthorne, Victoria Australia 3122
Authors:
- Carter, R
Publication Date: 1989-5

Media Info

Features: References;
Pagination: n.p.
Serial:
- Research Note
- Publisher: National Center for Statistics and Analysis

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Crash severity; Data collection; Databases; Design; Drivers; Environment; Fatigue (Physiological condition); Hazards; High risk locations; Information management; Information processing; Information, data, and knowledge; Location; Roads; Rural areas; Single vehicle crashes; Speed; Traffic
ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1663: Accident black spot; 8623: Data acquisition; 8655: Data processing; 8614: Database; 9011: Design (overall design); 1772: Driver; 2455: Environment; 2222: Fatigue (human); 2755: Highway; 8555: Information documentation; 9061: Location; 2748: Main road; 9054: One; 9150: Risk; 328: Rural area; 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 5408: Speed; 755: Traffic; 1255: Vehicle
Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 00491518
Record Type: Publication
Source Agency: ARRB
Report/Paper Numbers: RN/89/4
Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
Created Date: Mar 31 1990 12:00AM