Phase 2 : evaluation of the national crash experience : comparison of CARDfile national motor vehicle accident projections with projections from NASS

Details

• Creators:
  Salvatore, S ; Walter, Robert ; Mengert, Peter
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Accident Data Accident Records Alternatives Analysis Evaluation Forecasting
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  Indiana ; Maryland ; Michigan ; Pennsylvania ; Texas ; Washington
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human Factors
• Abstract:
  This report details the results of an analysis that compared the Crash Avoidance
  
  Research Data Base (CARDfile) with the National Accident Sampling System (NASS).
  
  CARDfile combines, in one data base, the police accident records for three years
  
  (1983 through 1985) from Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, and
  
  Washington. It comtains in excess of 4.0 million accidents that involved 6.5 million
  
  vehicles. NHTSA's Office of Crash Avoidance (NRD-50) uses CARDfile to evaluate
  
  crash avoidance concepts and to assist in program development.
  
  To make the best use of CARDfile, it is important to understand how well the
  
  accident experience derived from the six CARDfile states compares to other national
  
  data bases.
  
  During the first effort in this evaluation, TSC examined the general characteristics
  
  of the population, the vehicles, the roads, and the fatal accidents in these states and
  
  compared them to the same characteristics for the whole nation. We found that the
  
  six states agreed well with the nation (Salvatore, Mengert, Walter, 1987).
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:173cb51e6f2dd11615e89102a638dfb089ad68bfa375abdde123ab965d15f6c7
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5845/dot_5845_DS1.pdf
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