| Title | The development of a warning information system of neglected places for drivers |
| Dept | Transportation Safety Division |
| Year | 2011 |
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| Summary | In order to obtain traffic accident location information, and to provide the contents for analysis, the TALAS (Traffic Accident Location and Analysis System) was developed in a previous study. In performing tests, it helped in the traffic accident analysis application. This year, some expanded functions have been added to the original system, and the system has been divided into two parts, the data processing module and the data application module. These provide a better localization success ratio, better user friendliness, more flexible query and data output functions. One intention of the current study is to use the available traffic accident data to establish a warning information system of neglected places for car and motorcycle drivers. The domestic and foreign related research literatures were surveyed first, and then the human factors regarding the traffic accident data were classified. Third, the TALAS was used to select traffic accident spots to be analyzed. In view of the historical data of the selected spots, some improvements for roads construction were done, yet certain types of accidents continually occur driver factors can be assumed to be their cause. By integrating smartphones with GPS track recorders, the warning information system tests were performed in the above selected spots for car and motorcycle drivers. The results show that when the warning information was heard, both car and motorcycle drivers slowed down slightly, and were alert to the surrounding conditions, after being reassured of the safety, normal driving resumed. The warning information system seems beneficial to increase alertness, while the further study of suitable contents should be performed. |
| Post date | 2011/10/26 |
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