THE NEED FOR A PROTOTYPE MODERN HIGHWAY SAFETY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. TESTIMONY TO SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Decisions concerning roadway design, maintenance, rehabilitation, and the treatment of hazardous locations are based on short and long-term cost to society, and a major, but often overlooked, cost is that cost associated with death and injury resulting from motor vehicle crashes. The planning required to reduce these motor vehicle crash costs cannot be done without knowledge of how alternative roadway designs affect accidents, or without knowledge of which of the existing roadway locations are the most hazardous. This needed knowledge cannot be developed without good crash and roadway inventory data, and these data sets are of limited use unless they can be accurately and efficiently linked together. Accuracy in the locations of accidents requires moving to new technologies such as Global Positioning Systems in conjunction with Geographic Information Systems. Efficient and effective linkage requires new database management computer software and programs. A massive conversion effort is also needed in order to use the existing data that has cost millions of dollars to collect. Federal funding is needed for these efforts, and North Carolina is the state to undertake the efforts.

  • Corporate Authors:

    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    Highway Safety Research Center
    Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27599
  • Authors:
    • Council, F M
  • Publication Date: 1992-4-28

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Features: References;
  • Pagination: 11 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00722126
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: UNC/HSRC-92/4/1
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jun 12 1996 12:00AM