Visualizing highway safety
The Center for Geospatial Information Technology in the College of Natural Resources and Environment has created a tool to visualize traffic crash data across the state of Virginia. This tool is being used by Virginia State Police to plan safety routes and identify highway safety issues.
So we've been developing the speed enforcement dashboard for Virginia State Police on behalf of the Virginia Highway Safety Office. This tool is designed to provide data-driven decision making resources for state police to improve speed enforcement. We're able to provide this data near real-time. So having up-to-date information allows state police to pivot when there's new challenges related to highway safety. Building off a partnership with the Highway Safety Office, since 2011, we now have 1.7 million crash records to inform decisions that are being made, and that allows us to build analytical tools on top of this data for decision makers to understand where crashes are occurring and how mitigation strategies can be changed to reduce the risk.
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