Distributed GIS to disseminate via Internet information on road accidents, traffic counts and surface condition of highways

The aim of this work is to have a Geographic Information System (GIS) distributed for disseminating information on road accidents, traffic counts and surface condition of highways segmented every 500 m through the Internet. First, the automated procedures of dynamic segmentation were applied to geo-referenced information from the Federal Highway Network, in order to generate the segments of 500 m with numerical keys of the entire road network. Then programming algorithms were developed to link the information on road accidents, traffic counts and surface condition of the road with segments of 500 m. Later, geographical representation was developed using tools that implement standards for geospatial data dissemination via the Internet, like Google Maps, that facilitate the visualization of the environment of the road network highway and of the segments represented with different colors. This is done according to the number of road accidents occurred in the segment, the registered traffic counts or the surface condition; the information is displayed in a box by clicking on any segment. In this way the results generated by the system are shown for some major Mexican highways.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of the World Road Association – PIARC.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

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• Authors:
  • Villegas, N
  • Mendoza, A
• Conference:
  • 24th World Road Congress
  • Location: Mexico City , Mexico
  • Date: 2011-9-26 to 2011-9-30
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: 24th World Road Congress Proceedings: Roads for a Better Life: Mobility, Sustainability and Development

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Geographic information systems; Highways; Internet; Traffic counts; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road conditions
• Geographic Terms: Mexico
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01502805
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 2840602679
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 2 2014 7:08AM