Método para cálculo de gastos anuais efetuados com acidentes de tráfego urbano.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to compute the urban traffic accidents expenditures, wherein material damages are considered as well as personal damages. So far, the people in charge of Traffic Engineering economic studies in Brazil had no means to evaluate the average disbursement of a traffic accident. It has been developed a method, using a computer program, according to a specific methodology, which yields the computation of those expenditures. It is expected that with the use of this method in the future, it could be possible to evaluate the disbursement related to urban traffic accidents and, according to the results, the governmental people invest in that sector of society, eiming to reduce this problem more and more. This method is suitable to the social conditions in Brazil.