Children who are too large for harness restraints but too small to obtain good restraint from a vehicle seatbelt alone should be seated in a belt-positioning booster. Boosters have been shown to significantly reduce abdominal injuries caused by seatbelts. This effectiveness may be due in part to...

Cost estimates, including both monetary and nonmonetary quality-of-life costs specific toMichigan, were estimated for traffic crashes and index crimes by experts in the field ofeconomics of traffic crashes and crimes. These cost estimates were applied to 2004Michigan traffic crash and index...

This is the final report on market models for predicting Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) adoption. The work was one of the tasks carried out by the University ofMichigan on the technical challenges of PHEVs and impacts to the U.S. power system. We first examine benchmark market models...