Geology, geography and global energy

Scientific and Technical Journal

Use of geoinformation systems in road accidents research

2014. №1, pp. 165-178

Pogorelov Anatoliy V. - D.Sc. in Geography,Professor, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., Krasnodar, 350075, Russian Federation,, pogorelov@nm.ru

Steblovskiy Aleksandr S. - Graduate student, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., Krasnodar, 350075, Russian Federation,, steblovsky007@mail.ru

International experience shows that the measures to reduce road accidents should provide a comprehensive study of road accidents. Key area of this research - identifying the spatial and temporal patterns of distribution of road accidents. Optimal geographical coverage of the study - the regional and sub-regional, as it is at these levels is possible that effective management decisions. The main objective of this work – the establishment of space-time structure of road accidents in the city of Krasnodar, for the period 2001-2011 years. Only analyzed the 10-year period in Krasnodar were more than 193 thousand accidents. Baseline data on road traffic accidents traffic police provided Krasnodar. The database contains information on the location, type, time of the accident, the number of victims and other indicators. Analysis was performed in the software package ArcGIS. Place accidents, submitted as a text description in the geocoding process are located on the vector map of Krasnodar in the form of points. Description of the territorial structure of incidents made by the construction of maps of road accidents by Kernel. Found that in some years, the density of traffic accidents within the Krasnodar varies from 0.5 to 380 per square kilometer. Based on the construction of maps of the distribution of territorial identified accident. During the 2001-2011 years. the annual number of accidents ranged from 1224 (2003) up to 31305 (2009) cases. The sharp increase in recorded accidents occurred in 2006-2007. Due to an increase in the number of vehicles and the introduction of a law on compulsory motor insurance. In 2006, a marked increase in the number of road deaths in the territory of Krasnodar, which in later years has slightly decreased. Long-term dynamics of road accident victims has expressed trend.

Key words: traffic accident,database,GIS,geocoding,thematic mapping,the spatial structure,temporal dynamics,

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