DocumentCode :
3574626
Title :
A mobile solution for road accident data collection
Author :
Derdus, Kenga Mosoti ; Ozianyi, Vitalis Gavole
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. Technol., Strathmore Univ., Nairobi, Kenya
fYear :
2014
Firstpage :
115
Lastpage :
120
Abstract :
Road accidents are a major cause of injuries and death in developing countries. It is crucial to build a road accident database and data retrieval system as a fundamental resource in improving road safety. Since the accident database needs to hold reliable data, accurate methods for accident data collection must be used. This study focuses on improving accident data collection by using a Smartphone-based application. The application´s aim is to improve data collection, while supporting mobility, ubiquity and accuracy. The name of the application is CrashData; it has been developed and tested in Kenya. Using the application, data are sent to a central database for storage and can be retrieved by the same application. The type of information collected is determined by the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC), National Institute of Statistics (NIS) and other accident data sets. Location information recording is supported and depends entirely on Smartphone inbuilt GPS module and Google places API. The application provides a web interface for office based managers, who can use Google maps to identify accident hotspots by mining location information from the database.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; database management systems; information retrieval; mobile computing; road accidents; road safety; smart phones; traffic information systems; API; CrashData; Google map; Google places; MMUCC; NIS; National Institute of Statistics; Web interface; accident data set; accident hotspot; data retrieval system; developing country; inbuilt GPS module; location information recording; mobile solution; model minimum uniform crash criteria; office based manager; road accident data collection; road accident database; road safety; smartphone-based application; Databases; Global Positioning System; Google; Mobile communication; Road accidents; Vehicles; Accident Data Collection; Accident Database; Accident data presentation; Android Smartphone Application; Google APIs;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Science, Computing and Telecommunications (PACT), 2014 Pan African Conference on
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SCAT.2014.7055140
Filename :
7055140
Link To Document :
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