ACCIDENT LOCATION PROJECT

THE STATE OF MAINE'S PROJECT TO ESTABLISH AN ACCURATE AND RELIABLE PROCESS FOR LOCATING AND CLASSIFYING AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS IS SUMMARIZED. FIELD MARKERS WERE SET UP AND ACCIDENTS WERE LOCATED IN REFERENCE TO THESE MARKERS. THE USE OF MARKERS INCREASED THE ACCURACY AND UNIFORMITY OF LOCATING ACCIDENTS. THEY ALSO PROVIDED ALLOWED MODIFICATIONS WITH MINIMUM DISRUPTION TO THE LOCATION SYSTEM WHEN HIGHWAYS AND STREETS WERE CHANGED. THIS METHOD IS SIMPLE TO USE, ALLOWS ACCIDENTS FOR A PARTICULAR INTERSECTION TO BE RETRIEVED AND HAS THE POTENTIAL TO FORM THE BASIS OF A UNIVERSAL HIGHWAY INVENTORY. THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 10,000 LOCATION POINTS IN THE 4,500 MILES OF STREETS AND HIGHWAYS. THE ACCIDENT CLASSIFICATION SECTION OF THE PROJECT INCLUDED PREPARATION OF A CODING MANUAL. TWENTY VARIABLES WERE INCLUDED. PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN CODING ARE DISCUSSED. AN EXTENSIVE FILING SYSTEM WAS ALSO PREPARED SO ORIGINAL ACCIDENT REPORTS MAY BE LOCATED FOR DETAILED OPERATIONAL STUDIES. /SRIS/

• Corporate Authors:

  State of Maine

  Augusta, ME  United States 
• Publication Date: 1968

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Classification; Crash reports; Crashes; Location; Manuals
• Old TRIS Terms: Filing systems; Marking
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00220795
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
• Report/Paper Numbers: 13 pp
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 1 1970 12:00AM