TODD LITMAN ON RETHINKING TRANSPORTATION SAFETY
According to a Nov. 19th Planetizen article by Todd Litman, executive director of the Victoria (BC) Transport Policy Institute, "A paradigm shift is changing the way we think about transportation safety. In the past, traffic safety experts evaluated risk using distance-based units (traffic crashes and casualties per 100 million vehicle-miles or billion vehicle-kilometers), which ignores increases in vehicle traffic as a risk factor, and mobility management as a safety strategy. Yet, we now have overwhelming evidence that the amount people drive has a major impact on their chance of being injured or killed in a traffic accident.
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