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This paper reviews road safety performance in the United States. The paper develops a framework for assessing … dimensions of road safety, and analyzes the importance of economic factors, travel patterns, demographics, road …/traffic/vehicle technology, driver behavior, and public policy. Issues and challenges for future road safety research are discussed. …
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This paper analyzes the transportation fatality risk in the United States. The analysis is in two parts. The first part compares the relative risks of the different modes based on data for the decade from 2000 to 2009. The second part is a time-series analysis for each mode using annual data...
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This paper reviews the statistics and economics of railway safety in Great Britain, the European Union and the United … States, together with some results for Finland and Japan. In these countries railway safety has improved over recent decades … railway safety measures, using the same valuations for the prevention of casualties as are used in road safety appraisal …
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discussion on safety and security of rail vehicles, standards for safety and measures against terrorist attacks. …
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Modal shift from private cars to high quality public transport is often seen as a means for improved traffic safety … while simultaneously achieving other policy goals. This paper aims to describe safety from a travel-chain perspective and …, especially among older users. Thus, it appears that the pertinent organisational/corporate culture does not prioritize safety as …
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