IDENTIFICATION AND SURVEILLANCE

The traffic records system is identified as one part of a statewide records system which is composed of a data base, common identification index, and various surveillance programs. The need is indicated for surveillance for the purpose of identification, and surveillance for purposes of monitoring the high accident locations that were identified. The different meanings of the phrase "traffic surveillance" air examined, and the subject of Highway Safety Program Standard 9 is discussed. The program provides for the identification of high accident locations. In addition to the use of accident records for identifying specific locations, there is a type of surveillance of traffic and hazardous conditions in the field. The mechanics of actual surveillance can vary from the application of a very complex series of computer programs to a completely manual search for a particular set of data files. Highway agencies are developing a "coordinated data base" which consists of computer stored data files for many different users within a particular highway agency. So that various files may be coordinated with one another, there must exist an index that is common for all of the highway related data.

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  • https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/trcircular/168/168-003.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the Traffic Records Workshop, Deckers, Colorado, September 17-20, 1973. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Baker, W
  • Jaworski, P
  • Oaks, R
• Publication Date: 1975-5

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: p. 16-18
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: 168
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash investigation; Definitions; High risk locations; Highway safety; Identification systems; Information processing; Information systems; Records management; Traffic engineering; Traffic surveillance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Identification; Records; Traffic records
• Old TRIS Terms: Data systems
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00097395
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 13 1975 12:00AM