title: Estimation of traffic accident costs: a prompted model.
abstract: Traffic accidents are the reason for 25% of unnatural deaths in Iran. The main objective of this study is to find a simple model for the estimation of economic costs especially in Islamic countries (like Iran) in a straightforward manner. The model can show the magnitude of traffic accident costs with monetary equivalent. Data were collected from different sources that included traffic police records, insurance companies and hospitals. The conceptual framework, in our study, was based on the method of Ayati. He used this method for the estimation of economic costs in Iran. We promoted his method via minimum variables. Our final model has only three available variables which can be taken from insurance companies and police records. The running model showed that the traffic accident costs were US$2.2 million in 2007 for our case study route.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environment, Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. gs19772@mutiara.upm.edu.my
authors.forename: Rokhshad
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hejazi
authors.forename: Mad Nasir
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Shamsudin
authors.forename: Alias
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Radam
authors.forename: Khalid Abdul
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Rahim
authors.forename: Zelina Zaitun
authors.initials: ZZ
authors.lastname: Ibrahim
authors.forename: Saeed
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yazdani
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D018803:Models, Economic