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Development of a Visualization System for Safety Analyst

Accession Number:

01518624

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Abstract:

The AASHTO software Safety Analyst is a state-of-the-art tool with significant capabilities and advanced analytical methods for comprehensive analysis and management of highway safety. However, this tool does not provide visualization capabilities. To address that limitation, this study proposes a visualization system for Safety Analyst that provides graphical displays, including location and color-coded information for each module. In addition, the system generates charts, which have various degrees of resolution and aggregation; tables; and a report summarizing safety performance measures. The system can use Google Maps or ESRI ArcGIS to generate the graphical displays. The advantage of using Google Maps is its simplicity; in contrast, the ArcGIS display provides additional modeling and computing capabilities of the GIS framework. All displays are very intuitive and can be customized according to user needs. Because the user can see the locations of every specific site, the displays facilitate analysis as well as the decision-making process. The visualization system interacts with Safety Analyst so that the user can access all tools and data throughout the entire modeling and analysis process.

Monograph Accession #:

01559855

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-5105

Language:

English

Authors:

Paz, Alexander
Khanal, Indira
Veeramisti, Naveen
Baker, Justin
Belmonte, Loïc

Pagination:

pp 176–185

Publication Date:

2014

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2460
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309295529

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (9) ; Maps; References (16) ; Tables (1)

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure

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PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:47PM

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