STATISTICAL APPROACHES

Statistical Approaches

Statistical Approaches

Road crashes can cause traffic conflicts that can support a timely recognition and correction of safety deficiencies. It's been observed that in some locations appear to have higher frequencies of traffic crashes than other similar locations. Hauer was able to identify the number of crashes of stated type over a stated time interval; also safety can be estimated by counting crashes. The hypothesis that non-catastrophic events might provide information about catastrophic events. Heinrich's triangle is the name they give to his hypothesis that says that events can be ranked in order of increasing severity but decreasing frequency and ...