Citation

Martínez Pérez JE, Sánchez Martínez FI, Abellán Perpiñán JM, Pinto Prades JL. Gac. Sanit. 2015; 29(Suppl 1): 76-78.

Vernacular Title

La valoración monetaria de los costes humanos de la siniestralidad vial en España.

Affiliation

Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, España.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.gaceta.2015.02.001

PMID

26342412

Abstract

Cost-benefit analyses in the field of road safety compute human costs as a key component of total costs. The present article presents two studies promoted by the Directorate-General for Traffic aimed at obtaining official values for the costs associated with fatal and non-fatal traffic injuries in Spain. We combined the contingent valuation approach and the (modified) standard gamble technique in two surveys administered to large representative samples (n1=2,020, n2=2,000) of the Spanish population. The monetary value of preventing a fatality was estimated to be 1.4 million euros. Values of 219,000 and 6,100 euros were obtained for minor and severe non-fatal injuries, respectively. These figures are comparable to those observed in neighboring countries.

Language: es