Model of road traffic accidents based on root primary causes (Q1069432)

An offshoot of an existing general model of road traffic accidents (MRTA) is presented. The general MRTA contains an unwieldy number of terms for practical purposes. A reduction in the number of terms becomes necessary to render the model suitable for numerical computations. The method used to achieve this through grouping primary causes is shown. Some potential applications of the model are also outlined. Computations performed using this model yielded results which compared favourably with available results from other practical sources.