Research on the Relationship between the Investment in Transportation and Medical Industry and Road Traffic Safety in China

Abstract

Road traffic safety is related to many factors, and it is also an important index to test the level of traffic safety management and the utilization rate of traffic investment. The investment in transportation industry, mainly composed of road traffic environment and traffic management investment, plays a decisive role in road traffic environment and is the main reason bring up traffic safety accidents. The medical investment in traffic safety assistance system includes pre-hospital emergency treatment and post-hospital treatment, and it's amplitude reflects the emergent management level of traffic safety. In order to explore the impact of China's road traffic safety management level and traffic investment utilization rate on road safety, this paper selects relevant indicators of the transportation industry investment and the medical industry investment in 31 provinces of China from 2004 to 2018 to construct a fixed effect model for studying the impact of various factors on the direct property loss in road traffic accidents. Results show that: 2004–2018 GDP, the number of newly registered civil vehicles, the number of medical and health institutions and the urban per capita road area have a positive correlation with the direct property loss in traffic accidents; the investment in transportation and the total high length have a negative correlation with the direct property loss in traffic accidents.