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¹Hasselt University, Transportation Research Institute, Wetenschapspark 5 bus 6, Diepenbeek, Belgium. elke.hermans@uhasselt.be

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Area of Science:

Transportation Science
Statistics
Public Health

Background:

Composite indicators are crucial for assessing road safety performance.
Weighting individual indicators is a critical and debated step in their construction.
Existing literature lacks consensus on the optimal weighting methodology.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze and compare key weighting methods for composite road safety indicators.
To provide insights into the theoretical considerations, application, and limitations of different methods.
To facilitate the selection of a justifiable weighting method for road safety performance indicators.

Main Methods:

Factor Analysis
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Budget Allocation
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
Equal Weighting
Application to road safety data from various countries.

Main Results:

The choice of weighting method significantly influences a country's position in road safety rankings.
Weighting methods show higher agreement for countries with poorer road safety records.
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) weights demonstrated the strongest correlation with road safety rankings (fatalities per million inhabitants) for 21 European countries.

Conclusions:

The study highlights the impact of weighting methodologies on composite road safety indicator outcomes.
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is identified as a valuable method for developing robust road safety indices.
A justifiable method selection is facilitated by understanding the advantages and disadvantages of each technique.