2024-03-29T07:27:17Zhttps://riubu.ubu.es/oai/requestoai:riubu.ubu.es:10259/53972021-11-02T12:05:16Zcom_10259_4204com_10259_5086com_10259_2604col_10259_5373
Impact of a lower conservation budget on road safety indices
Rojo Arce, Marta
Gonzalo Orden, Hernán
Linares, Alaitz
dell'Olio, Luigi
Over the past few years, several countries, including Spain, have been experiencing a period of economic recession. As a result, these governments have reduced their budgets for transport infrastructures (both construction and maintenance operations). The main objective of this study is to analyze whether these budget reductions have an effect on increased accident rates and to perform an assessment of their real economic benefit. Thus, we analyze whether significant changes over recent years are perceptible in the road safety indexes in Spain, in terms of risk, accident fatality, and accident severity. The relation between lower budgets and higher road safety indices is analyzed through linear regression techniques. The results show a strong relation between the Risk Index and the maintenance budget, measured as an average of the last years. In addition, a final economic assessment demonstrates that this reduction in investment had no real economic benefits, especially as the costs of the accidents exceeded the savings in the conservation plans.
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2018
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
0197-6729
http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5397
10.1155/2018/9570465
2042-3195
eng
Sustainable and Resilient Transport Infrastructure. 2018, Art. 9570465
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9570465
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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