- Author
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National Transportation Safety Board
- Title
- Special Study: Fatality Rates for Surface Freight Transportation, 1963-1968.
- Coporate
- National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, DC
- Report
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NTSB-STS-71-4
August 18, 1971
15 p.
- Keywords
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casualties
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transportation
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safety
- Identifiers
- freight transportation; intermodal safety comparisons
- Abstract
- The report discusses the need for an index of safety for freight transportation, suggests that the appropriate index might be "Fatalities per Billion Ton-Miles," and then calculates these statistics for the surface modes of transportation. A technical appendix, which discusses data limitations, is included.