Citation

Tanishita M, Miyoshi H. IATSS Res. 2007; 31(2): 84-93.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between vehicle characteristics, fuel economy, and the occurrence rate of accidents and safety. The conventional method of analysis for passenger car safety is an evaluation using empirical data sets collected in a laboratory using risk of death and injury with the assumption that such accidents have already occurred. Instead of using this method, researchers examined the occurrence rate of fatal accidents and accidents involving injury using a negative binomial regression in terms of occurrence rates for fatal accidents and injury-incurring accidents and taking into account the influence of driver-related factors and vehicle characteristics. It was concluded that the comparison of adjusted occurrence rates for accidents and excluding driver characteristics between types of cars yielded no difference. Suggestions for various correlations as deduced from the methods employed are presented.