Where’s the road science?

performance of our roadways, scientific approaches must be applied to assessing deficiencies. At present, a sound traffic accident recording and analysis system does not exist.

The Traffic Management Branch of the Ministry of Works and Transport, for instance, used to collect, as part of its responsibility, accident records from the police, and would prepare
elaborate reports of accidents occurring annually, by date, classification, location, and frequency, weather and road surface condition.

They would further conduct detailed investigation of the critical accident locations in order to reduce the number and intensity of accidents.

This accident data collection and analysis is no longer undertaken, and has been so for a long time.

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