Boundary Effects on Spatial Collision Data Aggregationto Areal Units

Traffic accident data aggregation relates with boundary issues is OTS’s first project with University of
Calgary. Several years of collision data, traffic network and neighborhood will be collected from OTS.
This project contains implicit knowledge to improve the data aggregation method which has significant
impact of data sharing on neighborhood boundaries. The first part of this study will focus on literature
review and practicing existing methods to identify key factors and issues influencing the collision data
aggregation on neighborhood boundaries. The second part is to find new efficient method of data
aggregation from historical traffic safety related data. Results from the proposed study will help OTS
to prepare more reasonable and justifiable spatial collision dataset for City of Edmonton. The propose
study result expects to assist analyzing traffic accidents to reduce collision frequency and make the
City of Edmonton safe from traffic accidents.

Faculty Supervisor:

Xin Wang

Student:

Partner:

City of Edmonton

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Public administration

University:

University of Calgary

Program: