Title: UTILIZING TECHNOLOGY IN CRASH RECORD SYSTEMS
Abstract: The city of Overland Park, Kansas, is a community of nearly 150,000 located in the southwest portion of the Kansas City metropolitan area. In 1999, the city recorded over 6,000 vehicular crashes that affected more than 13,000 drivers. In order to better manage all of these accidents, the Overland Park Public Works Department has designed, developed and implemented an accident records management system to track accidents occurring within, or originating from public right-of-way. Accident record systems are long-term safety programs. They are used for the identification of high-accident locations, to identify accident trends or patterns and to provide a means for measuring the effectiveness of traffic safety improvement efforts. Accident record systems can range from simple hand tallied pin-maps that collect limited information to extremely complex computer applications that can record information gathered by police, information derived through in-depth analysis and information linked from outside sources.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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