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MTA’s Accident Mapping System

7/28/2017

Leo Fothergill, GIS Project Manager AECOM (consultant to MDOT MTA) Woon Kim, Senior Analyst AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (former MDOT MTA employee)

Agenda

Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) Overview Accident Mapping System Need System Features & Functionality Uses/Effectiveness of System Questions/Comments

Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration

Fourteenth Largest Transit Agency in the US Over 110 Million Passenger Trips Annually

Accident Mapping System Need Over 700 buses + 38 light rail vehicles + congested

Baltimore City streets Accidents

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Accident Mapping System Need (cont’d)

In 2012 Bus Accident Mapping System was launched to visualize where bus accidents were occurring.

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Accident Mapping System Need (cont’d)

In 2016 Accident Mapping System was launched with various enhancements.

Accident Mapping System

Light Rail & Metro

Accidents/ Incidents

Claims Cost Data

Supervisor Zones

Expanded Data

Querying Interactive Charting

Tool

Export to CSV

Improved Reporting

Intranet-based web mapping application. Accident Mapping System includes over ten years of

accident GIS data (January 2007 – June 2017) and six months of claims data.

Accident Data Services created using ArcGIS Server. Built using Leaflet js library- flexible, lightweight. D3 used for charts, accident points and clustering. Redux – a data storage/processing library. Optimized for large data sets.

Accident Mapping System

Accident Mapping System

Transit Modes – Bus, Light Rail, and/or Metro

Bus Departments – Division or Mobility Provider

Date

Preventability – Preventable and Non-Preventable

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Accident Mapping System (cont’d)

Accident Codes (Over 200 different codes)

Bus Routes

Bus Model Year Supervisor Zone Keyword

– Using keywords in accident description to query data.

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Accident Mapping System (cont’d)

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Accident Mapping System (cont’d)

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Accident Mapping System (cont’d)

Dynamic link to Google Street View

Accident Mapping System (cont’d)

Supervisor Zone Based Clustering

Color-coded by Mode, Color

intensity shows frequency level

Mode Selection

Mode specific data layers

Mode Selection

Accident Mapping System (cont’d)

Location Specific Reports

Accident Mapping System (cont’d)

Interactive and compound charting

Uses/Effectiveness of System

Bus Accidents ‘Hot Spot’ Report & Posters – communicate via

outreach to Bus Divisions and Training Dept. for raising awareness and reducing accidents

Uses/Effectiveness of System

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Baltimore Fort McHenry Tunnel Toll Plaza

Before (2011 & 2012)

Uses/Effectiveness of System

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two steel I-beam roof support columns & insufficient

clearance width

133’’─ 124’’= 9’’

Make operators aware of the likelihood of the accident

Alert them to reduce speed upon entering the toll plaza

Restrict them from using narrow lanes

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Uses/Effectiveness of System

13 10 2

2013/14 2015/16 2017YTD

After (2017)

Light Rail Accidents – Collisions along the LR

corridor on Howard St. in CBD of Baltimore City

– Mixed traffic, narrow and one-way roads, high volume of pedestrians, faded lane marking, etc.

– A tool to prioritize the locations for rigorous traffic study and safety assessment

Uses/Effectiveness of System

Questions/Comments

Project Contact

Leo Fothergill LFothergill@mta.maryland.gov

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