Benchmarking road safety: Lessons to learn from a data envelopment analysis

Road safety performance indicators (SPI) have recently been proposed as a useful instrument in comparing countries on the performance of different risk aspects of their road safety system. In this respect, SPIs should be actionable, i.e. they should provide clear directions for policymakers about wh...

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Published inAccident analysis and prevention Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 174 - 182
Main Authors Hermans, Elke, Brijs, Tom, Wets, Geert, Vanhoof, Koen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 2009
Subjects
Accidents, Traffic - prevention & control
Accidents, Traffic - statistics & numerical data
Automobile Driving - standards
Automobile Driving - statistics & numerical data
Belgium
Benchmark
Benchmarking - standards
Benchmarking - statistics & numerical data
Data envelopment analysis
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Humans
Models, Statistical
Performance indicator
Priorities
Road safety
Safety - standards
Safety - statistics & numerical data
Target setting
Belgium
Performance indicator
Priorities
Benchmark
Road safety
Target setting
Data envelopment analysis
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Summary:Road safety performance indicators (SPI) have recently been proposed as a useful instrument in comparing countries on the performance of different risk aspects of their road safety system. In this respect, SPIs should be actionable, i.e. they should provide clear directions for policymakers about what action is needed and which priorities should be set in order to improve a country’s road safety level in the most efficient way. This paper aims at contributing to this issue by proposing a computational model based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). Based on the model output, the good and bad aspects of road safety are identified for each country. Moreover, targets and priorities for policy actions can be set. As our data set contains 21 European countries for which a separate, best possible model is constructed, a number of country-specific policy actions can be recommended. Conclusions are drawn regarding the following performance indicators: alcohol and drugs, speed, protective systems, vehicle, infrastructure and trauma management. For each country that performs relatively poor, a particular country will be assigned as a useful benchmark.
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ISSN:0001-4575
1879-2057
DOI:10.1016/j.aap.2008.10.010