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In this paper we lay the groundwork for gauging the level of safety of any type of traffic flow on a freeway, based on data from single loop detectors; the procedure can be implemented wherever such data are monitored or simulated. Our analyses are based on loop detector data for each of the freeway lanes for a short period of time preceding teach of over 1700 accidents in our case study. This case...