TUgis Conference 2019: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2019 TUgis Conference. TUgis: Maryland’s Geospatial Conference is a cooperative undertaking of three primary partners—Maryland State Geographic Information Committee, Maryland Department of Information Technology, and Towson University. TUgis is dedicated to growing and empowering the GIS community throughout the Mid-Atlantic. The annual conference connects the Maryland GIS community to new ideas and trends and offers ample opportunities to find ways to collaborate.

3:06pm EDT

A Simple Geospatial Approach to Identify Crash-Prone Road Segments Using Historical Data: A Case Study of Washington, DC (2009-2018)

The number of crashes on US roads and highways are increasing daily, with over 40,000 U.S. crash-related deaths in 2018. Washington DC suffered a thirteen percent increase in car crashes in 2018. This study will measure the trend of the severity of the crashes (fatal, major and minor) that have occurred in the last ten years in Washington DC. The aim is to identify the frequency of the occurrence of each type of accident and find the most crash-prone road segments in Washington DC. The data is collected from the open data source of District of Columbia. A frequency analysis in ArcGIS identified the total number of crashes in each road segment and rank the roads into low to high crash-prone classes. Finally, the results show the four most accident-prone road segments to be 1. Georgia Avenue NW, 2. Massachusetts Avenue NW, 3. North Capitol Street, and 4. New York Avenue NW.

Moderators

Patrick McLoughlin

Direct, Business Intelligence, Maryland Department of Information Technology

Patrick McLoughlin, GISP, is the Director of Business Intelligence at the Maryland Department of Information Technology (DoIT), and is responsible for working with state agencies to optimize the way they use data, visualizations, and analytics to support their program’s mission... Read More →

Speakers

Md Muhib Kabir

Student, Morgan State Univcersity

Mr Kabir has worked in the field of Transportation and Planning as a Geo-spatial Expert from last three years. Presently he is pursuing his Masters degree in Transportation and Infrastructure studies at Morgan State University. In this period, he has explored the applicability of... Read More →

Nashid Khadem

Graduate Research Assistant, Morgan State University

Nashid K Khadem is doing her Ph.D. in Transportation and Infrastructure studies at Morgan State University. She is also working as a Graduate Research Assistant in the National Transportation Center at Morgan State University. Her research interests are transportation engineering... Read More →

Thursday August 8, 2019 3:06pm - 3:18pm EDT
LA 3310 Liberal Arts Building - 251 University Ave. Towson, MD 21204

Lightning Talk, Transportation

Keywords crash, frequency, spatial distribution, kernel density, student
Presentation Type Lightning Talk
Topic Category Transportation

TUgis Conference 2019

3:06pm EDT

Patrick McLoughlin

Md Muhib Kabir

Nashid Khadem

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