COMPREHENSIVE CRASH MAPPING : A New Analytical Paradigm for Addressing Road Safety in Jamaica Report Prepared by: Dr. Parris Lyew-Ayee Mona GeoInformatics Institute University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Kingston 7 Report Prepared for: Jamaica National Foundation and JN General Insurance Company MAY 2012 Comprehensive Crash Mapping: A New Analytical Paradigm for Addressing Road Safety in Jamaica TABLE OF CONTENTS A INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 1 A.1 The Road ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 A.2 The Vehicle ................................................................................................................................................. 4 A.3 The Driver .................................................................................................................................................. 5 A.4 The Passenger ............................................................................................................................................ 7 A.5 The Pedestrian ........................................................................................................................................... 7 A.6 The Incidental Road Users ....................................................................................................................... 8 A.7 Enforcement ............................................................................................................................................... 9 B A NEW APPROACH ...................................................................................................................... 12 C METHODOLOGY .......................................................................................................................... 13 C.1 Data Source and Formatting .................................................................................................................. 13 C.2 Mapping Road Crash Locations ............................................................................................................ 14 C.3 Type of Errors .......................................................................................................................................... 15 C.4 Causes of Errors ....................................................................................................................................... 17 C.5 Unfixable Errors ...................................................................................................................................... 17 D RESULTS .......................................................................................................................................... 18 D.1 Individual Crash Mapping .................................................................................................................... 18 D.2 Parish Scale............................................................................................................................................... 25 D.3 Roads ......................................................................................................................................................... 36 D.4 Community Scale .................................................................................................................................... 41 E CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................................. 49 E.1 Identification of Priority Areas .............................................................................................................. 49 E.2 Recommendations for Data Collection and Processing ..................................................................... 50 E.3 Development of New Analytical Methodology for Calculating Economic Impact of Crashes .... 51 E.4 New Local Innovations........................................................................................................................... 54 E.5 Definition of Stakeholders and how they may use this report ......................................................... 54 F BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................................. 57 G APPENDIX ....................................................................................................................................... 58 Report prepared by: Mona GeoInformatics Institute Report prepared for : Jamaica National Foundation and JN General Insurance Company Comprehensive Crash Mapping: A New Analytical Paradigm for Addressing Road Safety in Jamaica LIST OF TABLES Table 1 – List of fields provided with road crash data ........................................................................................ 14 Table 2 – Severity of crashes .................................................................................................................................... 20 Table 3 – Cause of crashes ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Table 4 - Top 10 Causes of Crashes in Jamaica ..................................................................................................... 21 Table 5 - Top 10 Causes of Fatal Crashes in Jamaica ........................................................................................... 21 Table 6 – Types of crashes ....................................................................................................................................... 22 Table 7 – Crash occurrence during the week ........................................................................................................ 22 Table 8 – Crash occurrence during the day ........................................................................................................... 23 Table 9 – Severity of crashes by parish .................................................................................................................. 26 Table 10 – Types of crashes by parish .................................................................................................................... 28 Table 11 - Types of fatal crashes by parish ............................................................................................................ 28 Table 12 – Cause of crashes by parish .................................................................................................................... 29 Table 13 - Cause of fatal crashes by parish ............................................................................................................ 29 Table 14 - Crash occurrence during the week by parish ..................................................................................... 31 Table 15 – Fatal crash occurrence during the week by parish ............................................................................ 32 Table 16 - Crash occurrence during the day by parish ........................................................................................ 33 Table 17 – Fatal crash occurrence during the day by parish ............................................................................... 34 Table 18 – Top crash-prone road stretches ............................................................................................................ 38 Table 19 - Top fatal crash-prone road stretches .................................................................................................... 39 Table 20 – Crash profile of notable roads (entire stretches) ................................................................................ 40 Table 21 - Top crash-prone communities .............................................................................................................. 42 Table 22 - Top fatal crash-prone communities...................................................................................................... 44 Table 23 – Top communities by type of crash ....................................................................................................... 44 Table 24 - Top communities by severity of crash ................................................................................................. 45 Table 25 – Top communities with most crashes per year ................................................................................... 45 Report prepared by: Mona GeoInformatics Institute Report prepared for : Jamaica National Foundation and JN General Insurance Company Comprehensive Crash Mapping: A New Analytical Paradigm for Addressing Road Safety in Jamaica LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 – Flow diagram showing the various aspects of the road component................................................. 4 Figure 2 - Flow diagram showing the various aspects of the vehicle component ............................................. 5 Figure 3 - Flow diagram showing the various aspects of the driver component .............................................. 6 Figure 4 - Snapshots of poor pedestrian habits.. .................................................................................................... 7 Figure 5 - Photographs of incidental road hazards. ............................................................................................... 9 Figure 6 - Flow diagram