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Transportation engineering

an empirical relation predicting road deaths from the number of vehicles and population, with deaths per vehicle falling as vehicles increase.

In transportation engineering, Smeed's law refers to an empirical relation predicting road deaths from the number of vehicles and population, with deaths per vehicle falling as vehicles increase. This meaning comes from Smeed (1949) in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General).[1]

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References

Smeed, R. J. (1949). Some Statistical Aspects of Road Safety Research. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), 112(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/2984177

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