Forecasting Methods for Road Accidents in the Case of Bucharest City

This paper aims to emphasize the necessity for policy reform, improvements in vehicle design and enhanced public awareness through the projection of future trends in road accidents, injuries and fatalities. The statistical methods that are used in this study are the empirical laws of Smeed and Andreassen. The main gap that the researchers identify is the lack of a standardized methodology with the help of which the appropriate forecasting method can be chosen in the area of traffic accidents. In the present study, the authors propose such a methodology that can be generalized, being suitable for use for any urban agglomeration at the micro and macro level.