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Are road traffic crash fatality rates converging among OECD countries?

Overview of attention for article published in Accident Analysis & Prevention, January 2013
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Title
Are road traffic crash fatality rates converging among OECD countries?
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Accident Analysis & Prevention, January 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.aap.2012.12.011
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Hong Son Nghiem, Luke B. Connelly, Susan Gargett

Abstract

This article examines the trends of road traffic crash (RTC) fatality rates in OECD countries over the past four decades. Based on recent developments in the economic growth literature we propose and test the hypothesis that RTC fatality rates initially increase with economic development, peak, and then gradually decrease. The theory predicts that, as a result, the RTC fatality rates of different countries will tend to converge over time. Our results for the period 1961-2007 reveal no evidence of the convergence of RTC fatality rates across the OECD as a whole for that time period. Nevertheless, there is evidence of convergence among sub-groups of countries. This evidence may assist policymakers as an additional way of benchmarking their country's performance against that of its peers and to identify the next-closest peer in country sub-groups with superior road safety performance.

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Country Count As %
Brazil 1 2%
Unknown 40 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 17%
Student > Master 6 15%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 9 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 11 27%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 15%
Psychology 4 10%
Social Sciences 3 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 5%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 10 24%
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