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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
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As PDF :
http://www.tmleuven.be/project/motor...apport_Eng.pdf
It's a computer simulation, applied to a particularly congested stretch of highway, so some reservations apply.
The stretch of highway actually contains a merger of 2 very busy highways - one 2 lane, the other 3 lane, merging onto only 4 lanes.
Then it crosses the equally bussy Brussels' outer ringroad.
Google's Streetview car was caught in traffic as well ..
There are some other effects as well :
Excluding foreign traffic, there are about 25 times fewer motorcycles than cars and trucks on our roads, with the annual mileage being a fraction of that - only 1/3 rd the car average.
Despite that, a staggering 15% of our road casualties are motorcyclists !
At 4% of vehicles, and less than 1.5 % of vehicle-kilometers, they represent 4 times the death toll if we look at the number of vehicles, and a whopping 10+ times the death toll when viewed by vehicle-kilometers.
Introducing more motorcycles in traffic while at the same time making them do many more kilometers, simply doesn't look like a brilliant idea to me.
It'd be a massacre.