TY - GEN
T1 - Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Fatal and Injury Severity of Road Traffic Accidents in Santiago, Chile
AU - Mondaca, Matías
AU - Blazquez, Carola A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Chile's capital, Santiago, presented over 91,000 traffic accidents between 2015 and 2018, yielding a total of 47,470 fatalities and severe injury outcomes. This study performed a spatial and temporal analysis of fatal and serious injury accidents to identify statistically significant spatial clusters using spatial statistical approaches at the global and local level. The results revealed that globally both fatality hotspots and spatial clusters of severe injury outcomes with high values tend to cluster over the studied period. Locally, the commune of Puente Alto presents the largest number of clusters with high injury severity index values in Santiago, while the commune of Quinta Normal has the largest clustering intensity of this index. Additionally, the communes of Maipú and Estación Central have the largest number of fatality hotspots among all communes in Santiago, and the highest average intensity of these hotspots are located in Puente Alto. Finally, a comparison between the spatial statistical approaches indicate that 85 locations exist in the city of Santiago, in which both spatial clusters of injury severity with high values and fatality hotspots coincide. The results of this study will aid local authorities, transportation professionals, and planners to improve traffic safety in Santiago.
AB - Chile's capital, Santiago, presented over 91,000 traffic accidents between 2015 and 2018, yielding a total of 47,470 fatalities and severe injury outcomes. This study performed a spatial and temporal analysis of fatal and serious injury accidents to identify statistically significant spatial clusters using spatial statistical approaches at the global and local level. The results revealed that globally both fatality hotspots and spatial clusters of severe injury outcomes with high values tend to cluster over the studied period. Locally, the commune of Puente Alto presents the largest number of clusters with high injury severity index values in Santiago, while the commune of Quinta Normal has the largest clustering intensity of this index. Additionally, the communes of Maipú and Estación Central have the largest number of fatality hotspots among all communes in Santiago, and the highest average intensity of these hotspots are located in Puente Alto. Finally, a comparison between the spatial statistical approaches indicate that 85 locations exist in the city of Santiago, in which both spatial clusters of injury severity with high values and fatality hotspots coincide. The results of this study will aid local authorities, transportation professionals, and planners to improve traffic safety in Santiago.
KW - Chile
KW - Fatality
KW - Hotspots
KW - Injury severity
KW - Spatial autocorrelation
KW - Traffic accidents
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85122037365&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18687/LACCEI2021.1.1.37
DO - 10.18687/LACCEI2021.1.1.37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85122037365
T3 - Proceedings of the LACCEI international Multi-conference for Engineering, Education and Technology
BT - 19th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
A2 - Larrondo Petrie, Maria M.
A2 - Zapata Rivera, Luis Felipe
A2 - Aranzazu-Suescun, Catalina
PB - Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions
T2 - 19th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology: "Prospective and Trends in Technology and Skills for Sustainable Social Development" and "Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Construct the Future", LACCEI 2021
Y2 - 19 July 2021 through 23 July 2021
ER -
