Research Guides: Automobiles, Highways, and Drivers: Traffic Crash Investigation

Statistics and Data

American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) is the US Census Bureau annual survey of demographic, social, and economic data, including journey-to-work statistics.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
BTS data collections include traffic, passenger flow, employment, financial condition, and on-time performance of commercial aviation; the Commodity Flow Survey; transborder movement of freight by mode of transportation; a census of ferry operations, precursor safety data for transit operations, and data on near misses and equipment failures in offshore operations.
Data.gov
Datasets on motor vehicle crashes. managed and hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration.
FARS: Fatality Analysis Reporting System
Includes motor vehicle accident statistics re: occupants, vehicles, circumstances, restraints, etc
Fatality Facts
Fatality statistics from IIHS.
IRTAD Road Safety Database
The IRTAD database contains validated, up-to-date crash and exposure data from 32 countries: safety and traffic data, aggregated by country and year from 1970.
NHTSA Databases
Vehicle Crash Test Database, Biomechanics Test Database, Components Test Database, Event Data Recorder Reports, NVS Software Applications, and Crash Simulation Vehicle Models databases from the NHTSA

ProQuest Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Statistical Insight provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. PQSI brings together a massive collection of statistical data in a single easy-to-use search interface, with additional features such as descriptive abstracts, detailed indexing, full-text PDFs of source documents, tables, and downloadable spreadsheets containing table data.

State Motor Vehicle Crashes
Quick, easy access to traffic safety facts and crash location web maps by state, from NHTSA.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
TranStats
A searchable index of over 100 transportation-related data bases across every mode of transportation — with many social and demographic data sets that are commonly used in transportation analysis.

Selected Websites

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Crash test ratings, news, data, and a monthly journal, "Status Report"
International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis Group (IRTAD)
With around 70 members and observers from 40 countries, IRTAD has become a central force in the promotion of international co-operation on road crash data and its analysis. It has been hailed as “model of a multi-country effort” and its crash data described as “simply the best in the world.”
National Transportation Safety Board
The NTSB is charged with investigating every civil aviation accident the United States and significant accidents in other modes of transportation – railroad, highway, marine and pipeline.
NHTSA - Office of Vehicle Safety Research
Research on crash injuries, child seat safety, automotive cybersecurity, and other topics - as well as data and news.

Databases

ASCE Civil Engineering Database This link opens in a new window
The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers ASCE documents published since 1970. It provides full text access to all the journals; only abstracts and indexing for conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from regional, national and international business and trade journals.
Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Engineering Village comprises Compendex and INSPEC. Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. INSPEC is a database providing access to bibliographic citations and abstracts of the scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, information technology, manufacturing and production engineering.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Has full-text access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics
INSPEC This link opens in a new window
Inspec, created by the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers), is the leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing and production engineering. Search both Insepc & Inspec Archive. Coverage: 1898-current.
Risk Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
A database for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences available throught the Internet. Contains abstracts and articles from the core journals in major scientific disciplines. The journals are arranged under subject areas for topical navigation.

Reference Sources

Injury Facts by National Safety Council
Call Number: REF HE5614.2 .N277a 2016
Publication Date: 2016
NSC publishes the annual statistical compendium on unintentional injuries and deaths. Injury Facts 2017 Edition is the go-to source for injury and death statistics, as well as their related costs, for:

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Transportation Library Collections This link opens in a new window
Use the Transportation Library Collection tab to do a global search for all Transportation Library books, journals, EIS', journal articles, digital collections and more.
TRID This link opens in a new window
Produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board, TRID is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information, covering all modes of transportation.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive catalog of library holdings, particularly (though not exclusively) from North American libraries, containing over 2,000,000,000 records from over 10,000 libraries.