THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROAD ACCIDENT DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ROAD SAFETY ANALYSES AND IMPROVEMENT By

This paper describes development and application of a road accident analysis and visualization package Road Accident View (RAV), which integrated Microcomputer Accident Analysis Package (MAAP) and Geographical Information System (GIS) components. GIS offer an advanced engine to drive, both area-wide and location-oriented investigations. With this system the possibility to raise and solve accident problems related to street segments, intersections, and neighborhoods may ease much of the labor-intensive production effort. Thus, more emphasis may be given to complex analyses and in-depth investigations. This newly developed software package was designed for 5 districts in Malaysia, namely Kuala Lumpur, Klang, Petaling Jaya, Georgetown and Johor Bahru, and can be adapted very easily to any other city. This system would be useful for improving the road safety management when combined with existing road accident database.