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Citation

Elvik R, Vadeby A, Hels T, van Schagen I. Accid. Anal. Prev. 2019; 123: 114-122.

Affiliation

SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research, The Hague, Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.aap.2018.11.014

PMID

30472529

Abstract

Recent studies of the relationship between the speed of traffic and road safety, stated as the number of fatalities and the number of injury accidents, are reviewed and their results synthesised by means of meta-analysis. All studies were based on data fully or partly for years after 2000. Previously proposed models of the relationship between the speed of traffic and road safety, including the Power Model and an Exponential Model, are supported. Summary estimates of coefficients show that the relationship between speed and road safety remains strong. The Power Model and the Exponential Model both fit the data very well. The relationship between speed and road safety is the same at the individual driver level as at the aggregate level referring to the mean speed of traffic.

Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


Language: en

Keywords

Exponential model; Meta-analysis; Power model; Road safety; Speed

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