Case Study in Spatial Misclassification of Work-Zone Crashes.

Author(s)
Carrick, G. Heaslip, K. Srinivasan, S. & Zhu, X.
Year
Abstract

Studies associated with work zone crashes are often based on law enforcement traffic crash reports. Work zone crashes are typically segregated fromthe larger crash data set by special coding on reports that describe the crash as being in or near roadway construction. A spatial representation of the street and nearest intersecting roadway fields of the crash report and the boundaries of the work zone provide an idea where the crash occurred in a geographic information system (GIS) environment. When the street location of the crash report is compared to the coded work zone field a validation of the location information is possible. Incongruence between the spatial location and coded report location indicates that more than 1 in 3 work zone crashes in the case study are misclassified.

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C 47718 (In: C 45019 DVD) /80 / ITRD E853650
Source

In: Compendium of papers DVD 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board TRB, Washington, D.C., January 11-15, 2009, 18 p.

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