تحديد البقع الساخنة (Hot Spots)‎ لمواقع الحوادث المرورية في مدينة أربيل : دراسة في مشاكل البيئة الحضرية

Abstract EN

Urbanization brings many problems to the urban environment, such as: problems of the urban transportation, represented in traffic accidents which has become the issue of the era and threatens humanity according to the World Health Organization reports, it has become the main concern of all government agencies due to its impact at both the economic and social levels.

Based of this, this research aims at monitoring the traffic accident locations in Erbil city and identify the hot spots in which the number and intensity of accidents are high, the pattern of their distribution, and to know the special and temporal characteristics of these accidents, and the reasons of their occurrence, for the purpose of constructing an accurate database and propose sound scientific methodologies to the relevant authorities and decision makers for addressing the issue that are based on the descriptive method and statistical spatial analysis, in order to achieve traffic safety to serve the citizens of the city.

The research included three main axis, in addition to the introduction, the first axis began by identifying the most important spatial and temporal characteristics of the traffic accidents in the study area, the second axis was dedicated to study the factors that influence the occurrence of the accidents, where the third axis discussed the spatial modelling mechanism to identify the traffic accidents hot spots in the study area using a Geographical Information System.

The research concluded with a set of conclusions and recommendations.