Under Contract FH-11-6698, the RAND Corporation has made a preliminary study of highway safety measures for the National Highway Safety Bureau (NHSB), Department of Transport. The objective of the work was to review knowledge on the causes of motor vehicle accidents, to relate these causes to the production of injuries and to operational and environmental variables, and to define a program for developing a conceptual framework into which may be fitted safety-oriented research activities and their supporting resources. The results of this study are contained in seven report in the RAND Memorandum series.
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