Using the state of Victoria as an example, the paper shows: 1. How a quarterly measure of vehicle-kilometres travelled (VKT) can be generated from fuel sales data. The measure weights different VKT by their fatality risk (safety-weighted VKT). Dividing the number of fatalities by safety-weighted VKT gives a quarterly fatality rate. 2. How the three main safety measures during the period (seat belts, random breath testing and speed cameras) have developed, and 3. How they can be incorporated into a simple model that can be used to keep road authorities up-to-date with what is happening per quarter, and which allows projection of the effects on fatalities of further safety measures. (a) For the covering record of the conference, please refer to ITRD no. E218380.
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