Strategies for road accident reduction and prevention can be drawn only after in-depth scientific and engineering analysis on the collected traffic accident data. However, it has been pointed out that Korea has many problems in a traffic accident data management system, which is made up of accident data collection, storage, and sharing. This study aims at recommending ideas for improving the traffic accident data management system (TADMS) in Korea by carrying out comparison analysis between TADMS in Korea and developed countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, and New Zealand. The results shows that Korea needs to develop accident investigation form which can be coded by the number; to renew accident investigation form regularly; to increase staffs, budget, and specialty of investigation bodies for severe accidents; to establish separate traffic accident database for quasi-public vehicles; to interface traffic accident database with other traffic related database; and to allow sharing of individual traffic accident data between government organizations. (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see E216632.
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