Characteristics and availability of fatal road-crash databases in 20 countries worldwide

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-327

  Luoma, Juha ^a   Sivak, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident; Crash; Database; Fatality; International

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

INTERNATIONAL ROAD DATABASES; NATIONAL DATABASES; SUBSTANTIAL RESTRICTIONS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; DATABASES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY;

EID: 34347370886     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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