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Projecting Fatalities in Crashes Involving Older Drivers, 2000-2025

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U.S. Census Bureau<br />

(http://www.census.gov)<br />

Table 4.1. Data Sources Exam<strong>in</strong>ed<br />

Data source Type of data available Notes<br />

BEA<br />

(http://www.bea.doc.gov/beahome.ht<br />

ml)<br />

• Population (historical<br />

data)<br />

• Population (projections)<br />

• Income<br />

• Education<br />

• Rural-urban percentages<br />

• Income (historical)<br />

• Income (projections)<br />

NHIS • Health<br />

• Income<br />

• Education<br />

• Employment status<br />

We used population<br />

projections and ruralurban<br />

percentages <strong>in</strong><br />

the model<br />

We derived a health<br />

<strong>in</strong>dex from the ALS<br />

data<br />

Standard & Poor’s DRI • Income (projections) We used <strong>in</strong>come<br />

projections<br />

U.S. DOT, FHWA<br />

(http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohim<br />

stat.htm )<br />

NPTS (conducted by U.S. DOT)<br />

(see, for example,<br />

http://www-cta.ornl.gov/npts/199<br />

5/Doc/<strong>in</strong>dex.shtml )<br />

EIA<br />

(Bruce.Bawks@eia.doe.gov)<br />

HRS/AHEAD<br />

(http://www.umich.edu/~hrswww/ )<br />

SSA<br />

(http://www.ssa.gov/ )<br />

U.S. DOT, NHTSA’s NCSA<br />

(http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/ncs<br />

a/ )<br />

U.S. DOT, NHTSA<br />

(http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/<strong>in</strong>j<br />

ury/airbags/presbelt/ )<br />

AISG<br />

(http://www.iso.com/AISG/<strong>in</strong>dex<br />

sys/<strong>in</strong>dexsys.html)<br />

• <strong>Drivers</strong> licenses<br />

• Highway mileage<br />

• VMT<br />

• Transportation budgets<br />

• Driv<strong>in</strong>g status/availability<br />

of other driver <strong>in</strong><br />

household<br />

• VMT/person<br />

• Income<br />

• Availability of transit<br />

We used driv<strong>in</strong>g status,<br />

availability of other<br />

driver <strong>in</strong> household,<br />

VMT/person<br />

• Fuel prices We used fuel prices<br />

• Physical/functional<br />

limitations<br />

• Physical/functional<br />

limitations<br />

• <strong>Fatalities</strong><br />

• <strong>Crashes</strong><br />

We used fatalities data<br />

• Seat belt use We used seat belt data<br />

• <strong>Crashes</strong><br />

GM Project G.6 4 - 10 October <strong>2000</strong>

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