NTL-FREIGHT-Trucking Industry;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Accidents;
Abstract:
This study provides the latest estimates of unit costs for highway crashes involving medium/heavy trucks by severity. Based on the latest data available, the estimated cost of police-reported crashes involving trucks with a gross weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds averaged $91,112 (in 2005 dollars). These costs represent the present value, computed at a 4 percent discount rate, of all costs over the victims’ expected life span that result from a crash. They include medically related costs, emergency services costs, property damage costs, lost productivity, and the monetized value of the pain, suffering, and quality of life that the family loses because of a death or injury.
This study provides comprehensive, economically sophisticated estimates of the costs of highway crashes involving large trucks and buses by severity. ...
This study provides the latest estimates of the costs of highway crashes involving large trucks and buses by severity. Based on the latest data availa...
The move to high efficiency trucks can lead to new revenues and jobs for companies involved in the development and marketing of the technologies neede...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2015-04-01
Abstract:
In 2013, 30,057 fatal crashes took place on our Nation’s roadways, with 11.8 percent (3,541) involving at least one large truck.1 The majority of la...
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