TY - JOUR
AU - Evans, Leonard
AB -  Leonard Evans’ My paper(’) had two conclusions, namely, that the risk homeostasis theory should be rejected because: There is no convincing evidence supporting it There is much evidence refuting it Although offering many comments on my paper, Wilde does not address the first conclusion. Thus, after more than a decade of advocacy, he still offers no convincing evidence in support. Instead, he criticizes the evidence I presented and interpreted to refute his claims. His criticisms are in some cases that the data are too uncertain to make any inferences, while in other cases the inferences appear to be accepted, but various ad hoc arguments are offered to explain why results, which on face value certainly seem to contradict his claims, are nonetheless not incompatible with them. Below, I first address what he appears to consider his most telling criticism. 1. AVERAGE SPOT SPEEDS COMPARED TO AVERAGE TRAVEL SPEEDS ON THE RURAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM I used published average spot, or instantaneous, speeds of isolated vehicles on the Rural Interstate system to estimate overall average travel speeds on such roads (total distance traveled by all of the vehicles on the Rural Interstate system divided by the total time spent to 
TI - Comments on Wilde's Notes on “Risk Homeostasis Theory and Traffic Accident Data”
JF - Risk Analysis
DO - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1986.tb00198.x
DA - 1986-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/comments-on-wilde-s-notes-on-risk-homeostasis-theory-and-traffic-pCaJooXXHT
SP - 103
VL - 6
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -