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JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHY
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 411-418Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2009.08.005
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Spatial clustering; Road network; Point pattern analysis; Traffic accidents; Traffic safety
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In this paper a methodology is proposed to compute spatial concentrations of point-based events on a network. The distance along the network is used as a measure of the spatial closeness of events. The network is divided into statistical units, based on a random distribution of points of measurement and corresponding network segments, which are the statistical units of reference. For each segment a dangerousness index is computed which indicates the distance-weighted number of traffic accidents in the neighbourhood. The statistical significance of clusters of accidents is tested using a Monte Carlo simulation. The methodology is applied to traffic accidents to detect dangerous locations on the road network of the city of Brussels in Belgium. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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