Identifying the hot spot areas of road traffic accidents
Joint Authors
Yohannes, Assegidew Yemane
Minale, Amare Sewnet
Source
Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering
Issue
Vol. 9, Issue 3 (30 Sep. 2015), pp.358-370, 13 p.
Publisher
Jordan University of Science and Technology Deanship of Research
Publication Date
2015-09-30
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
The road traffic accident is caused by several factors associated with the traffic system: road users, road environment and vehicles.
This study was carried out to analyze the road traffic accidents by applying GIS to identify hot spot sites of road traffic accidents along Bahir Dar to Gondar road.
The accident data for the years 2008-2011 were collected from pertinent police stations along the routes.
A total of 460 reported accidents were collected.
Google Earth and digital maps were used to fix accident locations.
Twenty five accident hot spot sites were identified in traffic accident analysis using Kernel Density estimation method, a 10-m Lixel length and 50-m search width.
Around Bahir Dar, on average, one hot spot site was found for 1.3 km road length.
On the other hand, around Libokemkem, on average, one hot spot site was found for 38.1 km road length.
This was the safest portion of the Bahir Dar to Gondar route.
The findings have indicated that pedestrians were by far subjected to the highest number of casualties represented in killed or seriously injured persons, followed by passengers and drivers.
The most productive age was more vulnerable to traffic accidents for the past three years
American Psychological Association (APA)
Yohannes, Assegidew Yemane& Minale, Amare Sewnet. 2015. Identifying the hot spot areas of road traffic accidents. Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering،Vol. 9, no. 3, pp.358-370.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-587865
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Yohannes, Assegidew Yemane& Minale, Amare Sewnet. Identifying the hot spot areas of road traffic accidents. Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering Vol. 9, no. 3 (2015), pp.358-370.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-587865
American Medical Association (AMA)
Yohannes, Assegidew Yemane& Minale, Amare Sewnet. Identifying the hot spot areas of road traffic accidents. Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering. 2015. Vol. 9, no. 3, pp.358-370.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-587865
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 369-370
Record ID
BIM-587865