Juma al-Majid Center for Culture and Heritage Competition, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1993 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch with blue marker coloring on tracing paper, 12 x 23 1/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Juma al-Majid Center for Culture and Heritage Competition, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1993 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch with blue marker coloring on tracing paper, 12 x 19 3/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Juma al-Majid Center for Culture and Heritage Competition, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1993 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Brown ink sketch on tracing paper, 14 1/2 x 18 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Juma al-Majid Center for Culture and Heritage Competition, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1993 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch with marker coloring on tracing paper, initialed, 18 3/4 x 18 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Freeman Residence, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1964-1966

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Red crayon drawing on tracing paper, 12x18 inches

Freeman Residence, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1964-1966

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Red crayon drawing on tracing paper, 19 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches

Rackham Building plans

Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, architects. W.B. Wood Co., construction. Image is a photograph of a rendered architectural drawing

The economic costs of road traffic crashes: Australia, states and territories

In this paper, we obtain detailed data on road traffic crash (RTC) casualties, by severity, for each of the eight state and territory jurisdictions for Australia and use these to estimate and compare the economic impact of RTCs across these regions. We show that the annual cost of RTCs in Australia, in 2003, was approximately $17b, which is approximately 2.3% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Importantly, though, there is remarkable intra-national variation in the incident rates of RTCs in Australia and costs range from approximately 0.62 to 3.63% of Gross State Product (GSP). The paper makes two fundamental contributions: (i) it provides a detailed breakdown of estimated RTC casualties, by state and territory regions in Australia, and (ii) it presents the first sub-national breakdown of RTC costs for Australia. We trust that these contributions will assist policy-makers to understand sub-national variations in the road toll better and will encourage further research on the causes of the marked differences between RTC outcomes across the states and territories of Australia. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.