2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 A Cost-Effective GIS Safety Analysis Tool for Improving Highway Safety Track: Transportation Author(s): Thobias Sando, Renatus Mussa, Haitao Wu, John Sobanjo, Lisa Spainhour The safety of highway travel in Florida is of paramount concern to the state authorities responsible for managing the highway system. The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering has developed a cost effective, user-friendly GIS-based safety analysis tool for law enforcement officers in Florida using MapObjects 2.2 software. The tool allows automatic creation of crash shapefiles using three crash location methods (i.e., GPS coordinates, distance from intersection and address matching). The tool performs numerous crash analyses and creates crash maps by querying information from TraCS (Traffic Criminal Software) database. The tool is customized to allow law enforcement officers to perform numerous spatial analyses by integrating TraCS database with other spatial databases to obtain hazardous crash location in their jurisdiction and undertake appropriate measures. Through a user-friendly interface, law enforcement officers could perform numerous analyses and produce maps that can be used for safety improvement programs in their jurisdictions. Thobias Sando Florida State University Civil Engineering CIvil & Environemental Engineering 2525 Pottsdamer Street, room 129 Tallahassee , FL 32310 US Phone: 8504106233 Fax: 8504106585 E-mail: sando@eng.fsu.edu Renatus Mussa FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Civil Engineering 2525 Pottsdamer Street, room 129 Tallahassee , FL 32310 US Phone: 8504106191 Fax: 8504106585 E-mail: mussa@eng.fsu.edu Haitao Wu Florida State University Civil Engineering Civil & Environemental Engineering 2525 Pottsdamer Street, room 129 Tallahassee , FL 32310 US Phone: 8504106152 E-mail: haitao@eng.fsu.edu John Sobanjo FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Civil Engineering 2525 Pottsdamer Street, room 129 Tallahassee , FL 32310 US Phone: 8504106153 E-mail: sobanjo@eng.fsu.edu Lisa Spainhour FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Civil Engineering 2525 Pottsdamer Street, room 129 Tallahassee , FL 32310 US Phone: 8504106123 E-mail: spainhou@eng.fsu.edu |
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