(1998) GIS-Based Accident Location and Analysis System (GIS-ALAS) Project Report: Phase 1, 1998. Transportation, Department of
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Abstract
This report summarizes progress made in Phase 1 of the GIS-based Accident Location and Analysis System (GIS-ALAS) project. The GIS-ALAS project builds on several longstanding efforts by the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT), law enforcement agencies, Iowa State University, and several other entities to create a locationally-referenced highway accident database for Iowa. Most notable of these efforts is the Iowa DOT’s development of a PC-based accident location and analysis system (PC-ALAS), a system that has been well received by users since it was introduced in 1989. With its pull-down menu structure, PC-ALAS is more portable and user-friendly than its mainframe predecessor. Users can obtain accident statistics for locations during specified time periods. Searches may be refined to identify accidents of specific types or involving drivers with certain characteristics. Output can be viewed on a computer screen, sent to a file, or printed using pre-defined formats.
| Item Type: | Departmental Report |
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| Keywords: | Crash analysis, Crash locations, Data fusion, Geographic information systems, Guides to the literature, Literature reviews, Software, Spatial analysis, State of the art studies, Statistical analysis, Technology transfer, Traffic crashes |
| Subjects: | Transportation Transportation > Data and Information Technology Transportation > Data and Information Technology > Intelligent transportation systems |
| ID Code: | 21866 |
| Deposited By: | Iowa DOT Library |
| Deposited On: | 01 Apr 2016 14:27 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2023 15:14 |
| URI: | https://publications.iowa.gov/id/eprint/21866 |