Spreading Awareness of Traffic Safety Through Web Application

Public awareness of the state of traffic safety is of crucial importance on the way towards its improvement. Although the data about incidents and accidents in traffic and their participants have been publicly available in Slovenia since 1994, the tabular-only format has until recently prevented the broader public a clear view into the topic. To overcome this shortcoming the authors have developed a web based application that puts the events from the traffic accident database on an interactive map. The map display is customisable and includes possibility of filtering the data according to user specified criteria. This way it is possible to examine the traffic safety status for an arbitrary area or a particular set of roads or list the accidents matching a particular group of participants. Using the application the broadest public can identify the problems in traffic safety on various levels, from strictly local to nation-wide and pass them to the decision making authorities for consideration.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institut Francais des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)

  14-20 bd Newton, Cité Descartes, Champs su Marne
  77447 Marne la Vallée,   France  Cedex 2
• Authors:
  • Ambrož, Miha
  • Korinsek, Jernej
  • Prebil, Ivan
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena (TRA) 5th Conference: Transport Solutions from Research to Deployment
  • Location: Paris , France
  • Date: 2014-4-14 to 2014-4-17
• Publication Date: 2014-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2014 Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Awareness; Crash data; Databases; Geographic information systems; High risk locations; Interactive computer systems; Traffic safety; Web applications
• Geographic Terms: Slovenia
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01531480
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: VTI, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 24 2014 3:22PM