Projecting Fatalities in Crashes Involving Older Drivers, 2000-2025
Projecting Fatalities in Crashes Involving Older Drivers, 2000-2025
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>