Travel risks

spurgemastur

January 20, 2007 15:03

Here's a website that compares the fatality risk of travellers.

You can make comparisons by age, gender, mode of travel....many others.

http://hope.hss.cmu.edu/

I am slightly more likely to die on my way home from work, than on my way to work.


But you can come up with other crazy stats, too. For example:
Motorcyclists are 30 times more likely to die (per passenger mile) than car occupants. But your risk as a pedestrian is almost twice as high as your risk as a cyclist (per passenger mile). On the other hand if you compare it on a per-trip basis, the cyclist has a 50% higher mortality risk than the pedestrian.

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  dcon12

  January 20, 2007 15:04

  quote:Originally posted by spurgemastur
  Here's a website that compares the fatality risk of travellers.
  
  You can make comparisons by age, gender, mode of travel....many others.
  
  http://hope.hss.cmu.edu/
  
  I am slightly more likely to die on my way home from work, than on my way to work.
  
  
  But you can come up with other crazy stats, too. For example:
  Motorcyclists are 30 times more likely to die (per passenger mile) than car occupants. But your risk as a pedestrian is almost twice as high as your risk as a cyclist (per passenger mile). On the other hand if you compare it on a per-trip basis, the cyclist has a 50% higher mortality risk than the pedestrian.
  
  
  I love these uplifting sites. Don

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  spurgemastur

  January 20, 2007 23:11

  sorry, but btt.
  
  I can't believe nobody else found this database to be captivating.
  
  If nothing else, try to stand in awe of the volume of data they have, and the extent of the indexing they've done on that database.
  
  (I will admit that I don't really see the point of it, but it's still pretty interesting.)

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