Cost analysis of road traffic crashes in China

Fatalities and injuries resulting from road traffic crashes is always a serious problem. The overall economic losses caused by road traffic crashes are beyond imagination. Including the economic cost of property damage, productivity loss, medical cost, travel delay time cost, legal cost and insurance cost, the total economic cost of traffic crashes in China in 2017 is calculated as 490.1 billion yuan (72.6 billion USD 2017), which is equivalent to 0.60% of the GDP. The cost of productivity loss accounts for the highest proportion of total economic cost, which is 72%. The second is the travel delay cost, accounting for 12% insurance cost, property damage cost and medical cost are followed. The more serious the injury, the higher the unit economic cost. The unit cost of a crash that caused only property damage is 11,274 yuan. The unit cost of a minor injured crash is 20,223 yuan. The highest unit economic cost is the unit cost of a fatal crash, which is 3,181,394 yuan. This study provides important insights into the cost-benefit analysis of China's road safety policies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

International journal of injury control and safety promotion - 27(2020), 3 vom: 21. Sept., Seite 385-391

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tan, Hong [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Fuquan [VerfasserIn]
Hao, Han [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Zongwei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cost analysis
Crash data
Economics
Journal Article
Traffic injury

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Date Completed 19.07.2021

Date Revised 19.07.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/17457300.2020.1785507

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312131763