Road accident investigation using an object-oriented database

Lupton, Kenneth

doi:10.1680/tran.2001.147.1.33

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“…The road transport statistics database in the United Kingdom, a country with some of the safest roads in the world (e.g., WHO, 2018), is one of the longest‐running traffic collision data collection and publication systems of any country; since 1949, road collision details have been recorded by the police using the STATS19 system (see ADLS, 2018). Although the form used has been subject to a number of investigations and undergone several alterations over the years (e.g., Hickford & Hall, 2004; Lupton, 2001; Neilson & Condon, 2000; Smith et al, 2015) it has undoubtedly provided continuity of data, from which much has been learned. Nevertheless, its utility in supporting remedial measures has had a long history of being called into question (e.g., Saunders, 1987).…”

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Intuition, the Accimap, and the question “why?” Identifying and classifying higher‐order factors contributing to road traffic collisions

McIlroy

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Stanton

2021

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Although the physical and environmental factors contributing to road traffic collisions are often the most straightforward to identify, they may not necessarily be the most useful in terms of guiding road safety intervention design. From a sociotechnical systems perspective, it is the higher system factors that, if addressed, would provide the widest‐reaching benefits to system outcomes. That said, the identification of these higher‐order factors often requires a level of intuition or imagination; they are not always objectively obvious given the facts of a particular case. Here, we argue for the use of the Accimap approach to accident (or collision) analysis, supplemented with a modified version of the five whys causal analysis technique, for the support and structuring of this intuiting process. We use an analysis of a fatal motorcycle collision to illustrate how coroners in the United Kingdom could be supported in their task of identifying and summarizing factors in accordance with the levels of the Accimap, and according to a categorization scheme indicating how abstract those factors are (i.e., immediate, proximal, or distal). Our analysis identified 21 immediate, 12 proximal, and 33 distal factors contributing to the collision. It is these distal factors that are most likely to lead to longer‐term road safety improvements.

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Intuition, the Accimap, and the question “why?” Identifying and classifying higher‐order factors contributing to road traffic collisions

McIlroy

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Stanton

2021

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Road safety management system for Oliveira do Bairro

Ferreira¹,

Jesus²,

Pinto³

2010

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport

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The infrastructure departments of the Portuguese municipalities must strive to begin to use advanced information technology tools to increase institutional productivity and effectiveness in managing road safety. At the moment, they are beginning to understand the advantages of using road safety management systems. This paper describes the road safety management system developed for the City Council of Oliveira do Bairro that has helped the road safety unit in its tasks of planning, designing, developing, implementing and evaluating appropriate engineering response strategies that deal with road safety concerns throughout the municipality. The road safety management system is composed of a road database and a safety evaluation tool and it uses a road network model that was developed using a geographical information system. The road database stores information about accident characteristics, road geometry, pavement condition, traffic, operating and environmental conditions, maintenance history, and other characteristics of the road environment. The safety evaluation tool is used to compute several road safety indexes and other accident parameters for each element of the road network and allows the definition of a list of road elements with priority of application of countermeasures. The Chassiakos methodology to be used by the municipality for black sections assessment in municipal roads with availability of traffic data is recommended. For municipal roads in which traffic data are not available, the application of the relative severity index methodology is recommended. Using the priority list and the results of safety audits, short-term countermeasures can be defined with the goal of reducing road accidents and their impact on society.

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Road accident investigation using an object-oriented database

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Intuition, the Accimap, and the question “why?” Identifying and classifying higher‐order factors contributing to road traffic collisions

Intuition, the Accimap, and the question “why?” Identifying and classifying higher‐order factors contributing to road traffic collisions

Road safety management system for Oliveira do Bairro

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