International Transport Forum Discussion Papers

ISSN :
2223-439X (en ligne)
DOI :
10.1787/2223439x
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The International Transport Forum at the OECD is an intergovernmental organisation with 52 member countries. It acts as a strategic think tank for transport policy and organizes an annual summit of ministers. Our work is underpinned by economic research, statistics collection and policy analysis, often undertaken in collaboration with many of the world's leading research figures in academia, business and government. This series of Discussion Papers is intended to disseminate the ITF’s research findings rapidly among specialists in the field concerned.
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Accident Cost, Speed and Vehicle Mass Externalities, and Insurance You or your institution have access to this content

Auteur(s):
Lars Hultkrantz1, Gunnar Lindberg2
Author Affiliations
  • 1: Orebro University, Suède

  • 2: Centre for Transport Studies, Suède

Date de publication
29 sep 2011
Bibliographic information
No:
2011/26
Pages
27
DOI
10.1787/5kg29s2p5wlt-en

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Traffic accidents are a human tragedy that kills 1.2 million people worldwide annually (World Health Organization, 2004). The cost of traffic accidents are huge and recent estimates for US alone suggest the cost to be USD 433 billion in year 2000 or 4.3 percentage of GDP (Parry et al, 2007). A reduction of this cost can be done in two ways, either by reducing the number of accidents or by mitigating the consequences of the existing accidents. Insurance systems can contribute to both.