Ian Savage (Guest Editor)(2013). Research in Transportation Economics: The Economics of Transportation Safety Volume 43(1)
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Editorial

Reflections on the economics of transportation safety
Ian Savage
Northwestern University, USA

Section 1: Scene Setting

Comparing the fatality risks in United States transportation across modes and over time
Ian Savage
Northwestern University, USA

Section 2: Valuation

Development of road and rail transport safety valuation in the United Kingdom
Michael Jones-Lee and Michael Spackman
Newcastle University, UK; National Economic Research Associates, UK

Consistency in preferences for road safety: An analysis of precautionary and stated behavior
Henrik Andersson
Toulouse School of Economics, France

Valuing casualty risk reductions from estimated baseline risk
Knut Veisten, Stefan Flügel, Luis Rizzi, Juan de Dios Ortúzar, and Rune Elvik
Veisten, Flügel, Elvik: Institute of Transport Economics, Norway; Rizzi, Ortúzar: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Section 3: Highway Safety

Paradoxes of rationality in road safety policy
Rune Elvik
Institute of Transport Economics, Norway

From theory to practice in road safety policy: understanding risk versus mobility
Robert B. Noland
Rutgers University, USA

A review of recent theoretical and empirical analyses of asymmetric information in road safety and automobile insurance
Georges Dionne, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Jean Pinquet
HEC Montréal, Canada; Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; Université Paris X, France, respectively

Analyzing road safety in the United States
Clinton V. Oster, Jr. and John S. Strong
Indiana University, USA; College of William & Mary, USA, respectively

Determinants of motor vehicle crash fatalities using Bayesian model selection methods
Gail Blattenberger, Richard Fowles and Peter D. Loeb
Blattenberger, Fowles: University of Utah, USA; Loeb: Rutgers University, USA

Examining pedestrian injury severity using alternative disaggregate models
Kibrom Araya Abay
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Section 4: Commercial Transportation Safety

The economics of railway safety
Andrew W. Evans
Imperial College, London, UK

Analyzing aviation safety: problems, challenges, opportunities
Clinton V. Oster Jr., John S. Strong, C. Kurt Zorn
Indiana University, USA; College of William & Mary, USA; Indiana University, USA, respectively