ADVANCE METHODOLOGIES TO ENSURE ROAD SAFETY

Traffic accident analysis is mainly intended to investigate the causes of accidents by identifying hazardous locations and Accident Pron e Locations of accident occurrences and to analyze critically reasons attributing for the same so as to ensure road safety. Geographical Information System (GIS) technology has been a popular tool for visualization of accident data and analysis of hot spots in city as well as in highway s. Accident analysis studies aims at the identification of high rate accident locations and safety deficient areas on the roads or streets. This paper presents a GIS based ? Accident Analysis System developed for the Chennai city road network.