Working as part of a joint venture, Carnegie Mellon University and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety have created the Traffic Statistics on Travel Safety (TrafficSTATS) website and online database. As their homepage notes, the website "provides users with an interactive tool to query information about multiple dimensions of traffic-safety risks." Using information from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the National Household Travel Survey, the site allows visitors to determine risk comparisons for a wide range of situations. Visitors should definitely start by taking a look at the online tutorial offered here, as it will allow them to work through several basic examples, including comparing risks for people inside and outside a vehicle and examining how risks vary across vehicle type. After going through these examples, visitors will feel at ease when creating their own risk comparisons through the site's interactive platform. The site also includes information about their methodology and links to presentations and papers that deal with the TrafficSTATS system.
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