Impact of the New Road Traffic Safety Law on the Number of Road Accidents in Slovenia

This paper studies the number of traffic accidents (TAs) inwhich people were killed or/and seriously injured over the peliodfrom January 1996 to October 2000 in Slovenia. The aimof this work is to ascertain if the reduction in the increase of thenumber of TAs after I May 1998, when the new road traf...

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Main Author: Polona Tominc
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences 2002-05-01
Series:Promet (Zagreb)
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Online Access:http://www.fpz.unizg.hr/traffic/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/856
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description This paper studies the number of traffic accidents (TAs) inwhich people were killed or/and seriously injured over the peliodfrom January 1996 to October 2000 in Slovenia. The aimof this work is to ascertain if the reduction in the increase of thenumber of TAs after I May 1998, when the new road trafficsafety law (RTSL) was adopted, is statistically significant.Assuming that the time series analysed contains also a seasonalcomponent, we found out that the new RTSL had a ve1ypositive impact on the number ofT As, especially in the first year(approximately) after adoption. After this period the averageincrease of the number ofT As rose again, but not as high as beforethe adopti01~ of the RTSL.
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Impact of the New Road Traffic Safety Law on the Number of Road Accidents in Slovenia
Promet (Zagreb)
road traffic accidents
piecewise linear trend function
seasonal component
title Impact of the New Road Traffic Safety Law on the Number of Road Accidents in Slovenia
title_full Impact of the New Road Traffic Safety Law on the Number of Road Accidents in Slovenia
title_fullStr Impact of the New Road Traffic Safety Law on the Number of Road Accidents in Slovenia
title_full_unstemmed Impact of the New Road Traffic Safety Law on the Number of Road Accidents in Slovenia
title_short Impact of the New Road Traffic Safety Law on the Number of Road Accidents in Slovenia
title_sort impact of the new road traffic safety law on the number of road accidents in slovenia
topic road traffic accidents
piecewise linear trend function
seasonal component
url http://www.fpz.unizg.hr/traffic/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/856
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