Analyzing Intersection Related Traffic Crash Data
March 25th, 2010
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The golden rule of keeping it “apples to apples” is always an essential part of making a proper comparison of multiple items. For the most part, this mentality has been widely utilized in the traffic safety world when analyzing intersection related traffic crashes.
Traffic engineers/planners and law enforcement officials primarily identify intersection related crashes through a pre-established distance from the center of the intersection and/or an officer’s selection of the crash being “intersection related” on the actual crash report. Utilizing these criteria, network-wide analyses are then performed to identify the intersections with the highest crashes, crash severity, crash rate, etc.
