Full Description
This is a book about road safety issues, mainly concerned with road accident data collection, analyses, monitoring, and countermeasure evaluations. The statistical and econometric techniques developed by the author and used in this book can also be used to collect data and monitor, analyze, and evaluate many public programs in the social sciences, health, engineering, and humanities fields.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Accident Statistics for the Shire of Melton
Chapter 3 A Review of Serious Road Casualty Data
Chapter 4 Estimation of Sample Size for the Comparison of Accident Risks Based on an Exposure Survey
Chapter 5 Developing Road Safety Countermeasure Initiatives Using Road Fatality Data
Chapter 6 A Short-term Accident Monitoring System: A Case Study for Victoria
Chapter 7 Evaluation of Some Major Statewide Police Initiatives
Chapter 8 Methods of Evaluation of Implemented Road Safety Laws
Chapter 9 Evaluation of Implemented Road Safety Countermeasures Using Intervention Time Series Analysis
Chapter 10 Detailed Analyses of the Victorian Zero Bac Legislation on Serious Casualty Accidents
Chapter 11 Evaluation of the Demerit Points System in Deterring Traffic Offenses
Chapter 12 Unemployment and Road Fatalities
Chapter 13 Cost of Road Accidents
Chapter 14 Risk Analysis in Road Safety
Chapter 15 Conclusions
