2022 年 14 巻 p. 2238-2257
Traffic Accident is a major problem all over the world. Traffic accident costs also become an important impact in the economy aspects of country. In this study, it is examined the blackspots and traffic accident costs of Yangon-Bago-Phayargyi highway in 2017 and 2018. The accident data are collected from six police stations. The accidents are analyzed to estimate the accident costs based on their severity by human capital method. The accident costs are categorized as four types such as fatality costs, major injured costs, minor injured costs and property damage only costs. In this study, there are fatality costs with US$ 10158157.1, serious injured costs with US$ 3754648.8, slight injured costs with US$ 92812 and PDO costs with US$ 307149.9. The total costs of traffic accident in this highway for 2017 and 2018 are estimated as 14.313 million USD and GDP losses of country for these traffic accidents is 0.02%.
