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T1 Effects of economic recession on road safety indexes
A1 Rojo Arce, Marta
A1 Gonzalo Orden, Hernán
A1 Linares Unamunzaga, Alaitz
A1 Dell'Olio, Luigi
K1 road safety
K1 transport planning
K1 Comunicaciones
K1 Communication and traffic
K1 Vías terrestres
K1 Roads
AB During the last years, the investment in both construction and conservation of transport infrastructures has been considerably reduced in several countries, as Spain. After a number of years in which economic circumstances have forced Governments to reduce budgets earmarked for the maintenance and creation of new ways, it is interesting to analyze whether this has taken a toll on accident rates.The paper evaluates if there are significant changes in the road safety through these years in Spain, comparing the annual statistics concerning investment in infrastructure and accidents. Thus, the classical risk, mortality and severity indexes have been analyzed to understand their real trends. Finally, through linear regression techniques, it is shown how these trends are related to the budgets invested each year, in order to draw interesting conclusions about the effect of their reduction.
PB Elsevier
SN 2352-1465
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5832
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5832
LA eng
NO XII Conference on Transport Engineering, CIT 2016, 7-9 june 2016, Valencia, Spain
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 23-nov-2024