TY - JOUR PY - 1977// TI - Significance of benefit/cost and cost/effectiveness ratios in analyses of traffic safety programs and projects JO - Transportation research record A1 - Fleischer, G. A. SP - 32 EP - 36 VL - 635 IS - N2 - This paper is a critique of NCHRP Report 152, Methods for Evaluating Highway Safety Improvements. Several important conceptual errors in that publication concerning the use of benefit/cost and cost/effectiveness ratios in evaluating traffic safety programs and projects are identified and discussed. Qualitative and quantitative arguments, as well as supporting numerical examples, are provided.

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