Three difficulties in the comparison of accident rates.

Author(s)
Pfundt, K.
Year
Abstract

Reasons why comparisons of road safety data among different countries are misleading are considered: 1) the definition and recording of accident types and severity, and traffic volumes vary from country to country; 2) the variation of accident rates with traffic volumes is not always taken into account, and 3) accident occurrences are not homogeneous so that the accident rate is not an adequate description.

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A 8066 (In: A 5689 S) IRRD 59798
Source

In: Symposium on the Use of Statistical Methods in the Analysis of Road Accidents, held at the Road Research Laboratory (RRL), April 14-16, 1969, published by OECD, Paris, 1970, p. 155-166

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