Title: ADVANCE METHODOLOGIES TO ENSURE ROAD SAFETY
Abstract: Traffic accident analysis is mainly intended to investigate the causes of accidents by identifying hazardous locations and Accident Prone Locations of accident occurrences and to analyze critically reasons attributing for the same so as to ensure road safety. Geographical Information System (GIS) technology has been a popular tool for visualization of accident data and analysis of hot spots in city as well as in highways. Accident analysis studies aims at the identification of high rate accident locations and safety deficient areas on the roads or streets. This paper presents a GIS based – Accident Analysis System developed for the Chennai city road network. Traffic accidents are unavoidable in present traffic conditions. Hence it is necessary to manage the traffic accidents to reduce the loss of time, life and cost due to the accidents. Currently, law enforcement officers spend a considerable amount of time during an investigation of a traffic accident documenting evidence and measuring important scene characteristics. The investigation time needed for certain crash sites is reduced because taking photographs is quicker and simpler than employing other methods typically used, such as coordinate and the total station survey method. While studies have shown the benefits of other investigation techniques, notably Total Stations, it appears that photogrammetry has greater potential for reducing clearance times because of the small amount of time needed to take photographs (usually with a digital camera) of the accident scene.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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