Per capita traffic fatality rates tend to decline nonmotorized travel increases.
Empirical evidence indicates that shifts from driving to nonmotorized modes tend to reduce
total per capita crash casualty rates in an area, as indicated in figures 4 and 5. For example,
walking and cycling travel rates are high in Germany and the Netherlands yet the per capita
traffic death rates are relatively low (Pucher and Dijkstra, 2000; Fietsberaad 2008; ABW
2010). Pedestrian fatalities per billion km walked are less than a tenth as high, and bicyclist
fatalities are only a quarter as high, as in the United States.