Online Road Traffic Accident Monitoring System for Nigeria

Abstract

The collection, management and dissemination of road traffic accident (RTA) related events has posed a serious problem to Nigerian road safety officers and all stakeholders alike. This is especially true because of the absence of a central repository from which all accident related information can be stored and managed. Where available, these information are available in paper based form and this poses a bottleneck in updating the available information. In this study, a Web based Road Traffic Accident Monitoring System (RTAMS) was developed for Nigerian.The Road Traffic Accident Monitoring System (RTAMS) was developed using Adobe Dreamweaver and Notepad++ as the Integrated Development Environments, HTML, CSS and JavaScript were used for the frontend, PHP was used as the scripting language, and MySQL served as the database server. Most of the languages and tools used were open source which ensured that the application would be robust, reusable, cheap and highly scalable.The result of the developed system shows that road safety officers, users, policy makers and all other stakeholders can be able to register, login, submit reports and run queries on information that has been previously entered into the system such as the accidents that occurred on a particular route or the accident in which an identified victim was involved. Policy makers can run these queries in order to take appropriate steps in minimizing road traffic accident occurrences.In conclusion, this system will help create a paperless alternative to the present method of RTA information and thus make information dissemination quicker and also improve first aid response to accident occurrences.

What interventions are required to reduce road traffic injuries in Africa? A scoping review of the literature

“…The first one [33] proposed the development of a web application to monitor road traffic accidents in order to replace hard copy. The goals of this intervention were to provide road safety agents with a monitoring system which would enable them to act faster in the event of an accident (to improve first aid responses) with a system for investigating and recording the events.…”

“…A single article presented an intervention in a real-life situation with the implementation of a data collection system using smartphones in Nigeria [33]. The second article [34], and one of the actions described in the article by Terje [20], presenting complex intersecting interventions, provided assessment methods of accident situations and recommended they be integrated into public policies for road safety.…”

“…They demonstrated the relevance thereof in their accident analysis and their interest in identifying the targets of preventive action. The article by Idowu and Williams [33], presented an intervention whose objective was to create an electronic monitoring system so that the input of data relating to accidents could replace hard copy. Another advantage was to enable searchable databases to be built to assist in creating actions to be undertaken to reduce accidents.…”

The Effect of Drivers' Demographic Characteristics on Road Accidents in Different Seasons Using Data Mining

“…This forms record information on accidents and their causes in five major parts. The data included information regarding the conditions of x 5 Road defects Lack of safety barriers along the road, poor lighting on roads, road erosion, surface defects, bumps, inadequate traffic road signs [20] x 6 Road geometric characteristic Uphill, straight, downhill, flat [21] x 7 Road surface condition Dry, wet, icy, gravel/sand, slush/mud, standing oil, other [22] x 8 Safety equipment No special safety equipment, air bag, ABS break [20] x 9 Road direction One-way, separated two-way, unseparated two-way [19] x 10 General cause of accident Not looking ahead, sudden opening of the car door, exceeding the speed limit, swerve to the left or right, abrupt change in direction [18] x 11 Type of collision Collision with motorcycle/bicycle, two-vehicle collision, multi-vehicle collision, collision with pedestrian, collision with animal, fixed object collision, overturn, fire/explosion [21] x 12 Type of region Mountain, plain, foothill [23] x 13 Type of shoulder No shoulder, asphalt [10] x 14 Vehicle type Mini bus, bus, pickup, light truck, truck, ambulance, truck with trailer, motorcycle, bicycle, agricultural vehicles, highway const. equipment, fire truck, police car, other [20] x 15 Weather conditions Clear, fog, rain, snow, storm, cloud, dust [22] …”