Title: Improving road accident database for black spots counter measure programs on national roads in Indonesia
Abstract: Traffic accident data in Indonesia is recorded by the Indonesian Traffic Police. The purpose of recording data is not entirely for the engineering point of view but is mainly for admissible as evidence in court. As in other developing countries, the Indonesian police data seems to suffer from under-reporting especially for non-fatal accidents and the location of accident schemes is not recorded properly; i.e. it is based on administration location instead of road based location. Therefore, it is difficult to obtain road information accurately from the police data and it is urgent that Indonesia should have an accident database that will able to help the Directorate General of Highway to carry out black spot countermeasure programs on Indonesian roads based on statistical evidence and a before and after study could be carried out to check the effectiveness of the program. The objectives of this paper are two fold. The first is to evaluate the accuracy of the existing police recording system and the second to develop an appropriate black spot safety program based on the pilot project location.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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