Evaluation of Trends in the Share of Rail Transportation and Road Fatality

The share of railway transport is inconsiderable in Iran. This could be one of the major causes of the high rate of fatalities in Iran. So the issue of road safety, regardless of different transport modes, is not perfect. Safety can be described as an issue by the three main indexes: exposure, risk, and consequence. With changes in any of these three dimensions, safety requirements will change. One method of reducing exposure index is developing safer transport modes such as railways. In This paper, the relationship between the share of rail and road traffic fatalities through statistical analysis of data from Germany, Denmark, Belgium, and Austria countries is analyzed. In these countries with high rail density, road death rate is decreased with increasing the share of rail.