UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

Tessa Anderson's CASA Seminars

26/01/2005
Unravelling the complexities of road traffic collisions in London
Over the years we have sought have a deep understanding of traffic safety related factors like road way user behaviour, medical results from collisions, vehicle ergonomics and road engineering. With extraordinary attention focused on the mind, body, vehicle and road way there has been a tendency to ignore other perspectives such as culture, economics, politics and social behaviour. This presentation endeavours to try and bring together these perspectives which have been ‘left behind’ and integrate these patterns into the more traditional analysis of road layout and engineering. The seminar will be divided into two section, the first section will concentrate on how this segregate of analysis can be overcome and the second part of the seminar will look at the progress of the PhD and what has been accomplished and what still needs to be achieved.

21/01/2004
Road traffic incidents: A dynamic approach to a complex problem
Road traffic incidents are inherently a complex problem to solve because there are accidents as well as crimes and to establish a pattern and trends has proven extremely difficult. Analysis has frequently approached road incident reduction in terms of one relating factor such as speed management, road user groups or cluster approaches. Road incidents take place for a combination of reasons and to attempt to reduce road incidents all the factors need to be incorporated into an effective methodology. All of these factors should not be analysed independently. By analysing a range of factors the error margin in misidentifying attributes of common incidents is reduced. This presentation outlines an approach which will draw together all the different features of the analysis to enrich the data analysis and create a more effective approach for the end users of this type of application and analysis.

22/01/2003
Road incidents: beyond just a visual understanding
The spatial and temporal analysis of road incidents has received vast attention in recent years by both the police and local authorities. However there is increased concern for data quality and management surrounding the road accident data, and a need to go 'beyond' just cluster analysis. Areas such as police deployment, understanding the location of speed cameras and scale and aggregation of 'blackspots' need to be addressed before any progress is made in this field.

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