Economic evaluation of traffic safety measures for transport companies

This paper addresses the economic feasibility of measures to reduce the material damage of transport companies. Results are presented of a series of interviews among transport companies as well as from a postal questionnaire survey. Next, calculations are presented for three types of companies: a small family company, a large family company and a large formalised company. From the viewpoint of costs and benefits, damage prevention measures appear to be particularly interesting to larger companies. Small companies, being the largest group, tend to have an informal culture in which measures are less effective. Especially those measures for which no large investments an needed, which influence the behaviour of drivers and need not to be contracted out, are perceived as attractive by the transport companies. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.