Definition
Road deaths by all transport accidents in the urban area on a yearly basis.
Parameter
Number of deaths within 30 days after the traffic accident as a corollary of the event per annum caused by urban transport per 100,000 inhabitants of the urban area.
FR =
FR = Fatality rate [# per 100,000 urban area population per year]
Ki = Number of persons killed in transport mode i [# per year]
Cap = Capita or number of inhabitants in the urban area [#]
i = Transport mode
Data sources
Information needed | Possible specific sources | Costs* | Advice to fill data gaps and/ or improve data quality |
Number of road deaths per transport mode | Data on road deaths (within 30 days) at urban level is usually available from the local police and statistical offices. | L |
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Number of inhabitants | The number of inhabitants is usually known. | L | - |
* The column “Costs” provides a qualitative assessment of the budget (staff costs, time, costs for data acquisition, etc.) needed by a city/ urban area for gathering new quantitative data in absence of already available values. For each parameter, the assessment takes into account both the administrative costs and the costs related to searching, acquisition and processing of the needed data; these can be high (“H”), medium (“M”) or low (“L”), or a combination of a pair of them.
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