Conche, F. and Tight, M.R. (2006) Use of CCTV to determine road accident factors in urban areas. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 38 (6). pp. 1197-1207. ISSN 0001-4575
Abstract
This paper sets out to assess whether there is a potential use for images collected through the increasingly ubiquitous use of CCTV cameras in urban areas as a means of increasing understanding of the causes of road traffic accidents. Information on causation and contributory factors is essential as a means of understanding why accidents occurred and how the occurrence of similar events may be prevented in the future. CCTV records of accidents could provide an independent perspective on an accident and have the potential to increase both the quality and quantity of information available to the safety researcher. This study focuses on an area of central Leeds in the UK and shows that an existing CCTV camera system used for urban traffic management reasons has the potential to 1 record around a quarter of the accidents which occur in the area, based on patterns of past occurrence. Most city centres in the UK will have similar camera systems set up. By the introduction of additional strategically placed cameras and replacement of existing cameras with ones dedicated to accident recording, this figure could be increased substantially. The paper also considers how effective cameras and video records will be as a means of identifying contributory factor information once an accident is recorded. The contributory factor classification used by a recently introduced system in Britain is assessed in terms of how visible each of the factors is likely to be on video and their relative frequency of occurrence. It is concluded that CCTV has a high potential to provide corroborative evidence about many of the most commonly occurring factors, and to throw further light on accident causation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2006 Elsevier B.V. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Accident, Analysis and Prevention. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Road accidents, Contributory factors, CCTV, safety, video records. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Adrian May |
Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2007 |
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2016 20:56 |
Published Version: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier Science |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.aap.2006.05.008 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:2578 |