The effectiveness of using a simple ARIA based geographical classification to identify road crash patterns in rural and urban areas of Queensland

The current paper seeks to evaluate the efficacy of the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA+) to identifying trends in road crashes. ARIA+ does not rely on road-specific measures and uses distances to populated centres to attribute a score to an area, which can in turn be grouped into 5 classifications of increasing remoteness. The current paper uses applications of these classifications at the broad level of Australian Bureau of Statistics' Statistical Local Areas, thus avoiding precise crash locating or dedicated mapping software. Analyses used Queensland road crash database details for all 31,346 crashes resulting in a fatality or hospitalisation occurring between 1st July, 2001 and 30th June 2006 inclusive. Results showed that this simplified application of ARIA+ aligned with previous definitions such as speed limit, while also providing further delineation. Differences in crash contributing factors were noted with increasing remoteness such as a greater representation of alcohol and ‘excessive speed for circumstances.' Other factors such as the predominance of younger drivers in crashes differed little by remoteness classification. The results are discussed in terms of the utility of remoteness as a graduated rather than binary (rural/urban) construct and the potential for combining ARIA crash data with census and hospital datasets.

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• Authors:
  • Steinhardt, D
  • Sheehan, M
  • Siskind, V
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Research Policing Education Conference, 2009, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Publication Date: 2009-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: 2009 Australian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 November 2009, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, New South Wales, Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash analysis; Crash causes; Drunk driving; Highway safety; Rural areas; Speeding
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road safety (engineering and vehicles); Road safety (human factors)
• Geographic Terms: Queensland
• ATRI Terms: Crash analysis; Crash cause; Drink driving; Road safety; Rural area; Speeding
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01381962
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 9781921692260
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 22 2012 12:55PM