Current Practices in Recording Road Traffic Accidents in Kenya: Implications of Data Quality on Analysis of Road Accidents Using GIS

The purpose of this paper was to review the existing road accident data collection procedures and practices in Kenya and the suitability of the data for GIS-aided analysis. The review focused on five main areas: accident recording, data storage and retrieval, accident location referencing, data and information sharing, and analysis and reporting. Results show that current data collection and management practices are deficient in all the five areas, but mainly in accident location referencing. Only 66.6% of accidents had location references. Poor identification of accident locations hampers full exploitation of GIS potentials in safety analysis and black spot treatment. Pedestrians were the most (56%) vulnerable group of casualties and were mainly hit at T-junctions.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

  Secretariat, 14 Avenue Berthelot
  69363 Lyon cedex 07,   France 
• Authors:
  • Kayi, Calvine
• Conference:
  • 11th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Berkeley CA, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 21p
• Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Data quality; Geographic information systems; Global Positioning System; High risk locations; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety
• Geographic Terms: Kenya
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01117313
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 2008 12:31PM