Road Safety for Fleets of Vehicles

Abstract

Road safety for fleets of vehicles has been neglected in the insurance literature, mainly because appropriate data is not available. This paper makes a threefold contribution: 1) Produce statistics on current fleets’ road safety offences using a panel of 20 years of data on truck fleets; 2) relate these offences to fleets’ accidents; and 3) identify and classify the riskiest fleets for insurance ratemaking based on past experience in managing road safety. Our results show a substantial heterogeneity between fleets in terms of road safety.

Keywords: Road safety, truck fleets, professional drivers, road safety infractions, road safety policy, zero-inflated model, negative binomial model.

JEL Classification: D81, G22