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Traffic Safety as an Economic Issue of Developing and Industrialized Countries

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Transportation, Traffic Safety and Health — Prevention and Health

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Transport in general, and road traffic in particular, are known to cause significant costs to societies in the form of delays, health- and environmental damages from pollution, and not the least, injuries and loss of life from traffic accidents.

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  1. Nordic Consulting Group A.S., Norway

    Stein Hansen

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  1. Department of Aeronautics, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044, Stockholm, Sweden

    Hans von Holst

  2. Department of Injury Prevention, Karolinska Institute, Hantverkargatan 5, 11296, Stockholm, Sweden

    Åke Nygren

  3. Department of Infrastructure, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044, Stockholm, Sweden

    Åke E. Andersson

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Hansen, S. (2000). Traffic Safety as an Economic Issue of Developing and Industrialized Countries. In: von Holst, H., Nygren, Å., Andersson, Å.E. (eds) Transportation, Traffic Safety and Health — Prevention and Health. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57246-3_2

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