GIS HELPS WITH TRAFFIC ACCIDENT MITIGATION

The City of La Mesa, California, located northeast of San Diego, won a California Office of Traffic Safety grant for traffic accident mitigation. Demographics and geography showed that the city was a prime candidate for a new Geographic Information System to fulfill the grant's goals. One of the first challenges of this project was educating city decision-makers on the reality of GIS and the amount of work and maintenance a fully-functioning GIS required. A slew of existing accidents had to be geocoded (references to the GIS coverage) to be of any use to the new system. The intersection accidents presented minimal problems because the intersections had latitude and longitude coordinates as an integral part of their database record. These coordinates could be references by ArcView and used to associate an accident with an intersection appearing on the city's GIS coverage.

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• Authors:
  • Mohle, D
  • Long, H
• Publication Date: 1996-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 29-31
• Serial:
  • Better Roads
  • Volume: 66
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: James Informational Media, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0006-0208
  • Serial URL: http://www.betterroads.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash reports; Geographic information systems; Intersections; Traffic crashes; Traffic mitigation
• Geographic Terms: Southern California
• Old TRIS Terms: Intersection collisions
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00719220
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 18 1996 12:00AM