Summary of Travel Trends
Summary of Travel Trends

Author: Patricia S. Hu

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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The U.S. Dept. of Transport. (DoT) Strategic Plan for FY 1997-2002 identifies 5 performance goals: safety, mobility, econ. growth & trade, human & natural environ., & nat. security. DoT conducts the NPTS to obtain info. on personal travel of U.S. households with respect to why, how, when, where from, where to, how frequently, how long, & with whom. The NPTS also provides info. by subgroups of the pop., e.g., by age, gender, race, zero-vehicle households, which allows important policy analyses of how transport. serves these groups. This report provides the results of the 1995 NPTS of travel by the civilian, non-institutionalized pop. age 5 & older.

World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention
World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention

Author: Marjorie Peden

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2008-09

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1437904068

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Every day thousands of people are killed and injured on our roads. Millions of people each year will spend long weeks in the hospital after severe crashes and many will never be able to live, work or play as they used to do. Current efforts to address road safety are minimal in comparison to this growing human suffering. This report presents a comprehensive overview of what is known about the magnitude, risk factors and impact of road traffic injuries, and about ways to prevent and lessen the impact of road crashes. Over 100 experts, from all continents and different sectors -- including transport, engineering, health, police, education and civil society -- have worked to produce the report. Charts and tables.

Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes
Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes

Author: Daniel Brod

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 0309283485

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"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 755: Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes describes a process for estimating the costs of highway-rail grade crossing crashes. A spreadsheet-based tool to facilitate use of the cost estimation process is available online." --Publisher description.

The Economic Cost of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 1994
The Economic Cost of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 1994

Author: Lawrence J. Blincoe

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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This report presents the results of an analysis of motor vehicle crash costs in 1994. The total economic cost of motor vehicle crashes in 1994 was 150.5 billion dollars. This represents the present value of lifetime costs for 40,676 fatalities, 5.2 million nonfatal injuries, and 27 million damaged vehicles, in both police reported and unreported crashes. Property damage costs of 52.1 billion dollars accounted for the largest share of costs, while lost market productivity accounted for 42.4 billion dollars. Medical expenses totalled 17 billion dollars. Each fatality resulted in an average discounted lifetime cost of 830,000 dollars. Alcohol-involved crashes caused 45 billion dollars or 30% of all economic costs, and 78% of these costs occurred in crashes where a driver or pedestrian was legally intoxicated (>=.10% BAC). Crashes in which police indicate that at least one driver was exceeding the legal speed limit or driving too fast for conditions cost 27.7 billion dollars in 1994. Public revenues paid for 24% of medical costs, and 9% of all costs resulting from motor vehicle crashes. These crashes cost taxpayers 13.8 billion dollars in 1994, the equivalent of 144 dollars in added taxes for each household in the United States.