Proactively detecting motor vehicle crash black spots based on their underlying behavioural, engineering and spatial causes.

Proactively detecting motor vehicle crash black spots based on their underlying behavioural, engineering and spatial causes

Funding: ARC Discovery Project (DP140101653), Funding ($171,000)

Duration: Jan 2014 – Dec 2016.

Road traffic crashes are responsible for hundreds of lives and thousands of injuries on Australian roadways each year. A significant research opportunity exists to fundamentally rethink how the profession quantitatively identifies black spots on the transport network. This project aims to develop, test, and validate an evidence-based methodology to proactively detect motor vehicle crash black spots by decomposing (statistically) observed crashes at a site into their engineering, behavioural, and unobserved spatial components. The new methods combined provide novel insights and knowledge regarding transport network safety management.