Geographical planning of space quarterly journal

Geographical planning of space quarterly journal

Investigating the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Accident Hot spot in Firoozkooh Road using Geographical Information System

Document Type : Research Paper

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Department of Geography, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran
Abstract
The negative impacts of road accidents on socio-economic aspects of human life is a growing concern in the word. Thus, planning to have safe roads is a key factor to achieve sustainable road transportation systems. In this contribution, we aim to investigate the spatio-temporal patterns of accidents density and also the space-time pattern of accidents hot spot along Firoozkooh road which is a transit road, connecting capital to Mazandaran province. In this context, we implemented Kernel density estimation and hot spot analysis using GIS on road accident data from 2016 to 2022.. Results indicate that both accidents density and also accidents hot spot clusters change spatially and temporarily in this time period. Accidents density found to be most in 2022 following the low density rate in 2020 due to Corona pandemic lockdown. Dogol train station and after Abshar tunnel in Firoozkooh road were the most selected parts of the road in terms of accident density rate in 2016-2022. Also, Dogol terrain station and after Abshar tunnel were identified as accidents hot spot clusters with mean Z-score equal to 2.32 and confidence intervals of 90 to 90% in the period of 2016-2022. The road length in these accidents clusters is 10.979 km which contains 46% of accident in this time period. We recommend investigating the cause of accidents in high accident-density road sections and in accident clusters. With this, the safety of this road will be increased and as a result human life and economic activities will be secured
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