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USING TABLEAU TO BUILD DASHBOARDS FOR

ANALYZING CRASH DATA

Presented by Cory Hutchinson

October 26, 2015

• Funded by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development

• Research group within the Information Systems and Decision Sciences department at Louisiana State University

• Developed LaCrash application to electronically capture crash reporting information

• Collect and analyze traffic accident data for the state

• http://hsrg.lsu.edu

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The Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) is

a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to

reducing the devastating effects of motor

vehicle-related fatalities and injuries on Louisiana

roadways.

Strategic HighwaySafety Plan

The Louisiana SHSP is based on Data Driven

approaches to reduce fatalities/serious injuries.

Vision and MissionThe vision of the Louisiana Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) is to reach Destination Zero Deaths on Louisiana roadways.

The mission of the SHSP is to reduce the human and economic toll on Louisiana’s surface transportation system due to traffic crashes through widespread collaboration and an integrated 4E approach.

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Louisiana’s SHSP Structure

Implementation Team

Executive Committee

Distracted and Inattentive Driving

Task Force

Aggressive Driving Task Force

Communications Coordinating Council

Regional Highway Safety Coalitions

Infrastructure EA Team

Young Drivers EA Team

Impaired Driving EA Team

Occupant Protection EA Team

Louisiana Regional Safety Coalitions

10 Regional Safety Coalitions across the

state

Involve Numerous Agencies

Address local needs and concerns

Facilitate the development of action plans

Use the procedures of the LASHSP to identify problems and produce countermeasures

Emphasis Area Selection

Infrastructure Crashes

Intersection

Roadway Departure

Impaired Driving

Young Driver

Pedestrian

Bicycle

Occupant Protection

HSRG is working in conjunction with DOTD to develop new techniques to analyze and display crash data.

• Present in a manner the end user can easily identify problem areas

• Supply interactive data techniques

• Provide information which is visual and easy to comprehend

LouisianaRegional Safety Coalition

Data

To accommodate each Safety

Coalition, HSRG produces

analyzed data sets consisting of

3 Levels

http://datareports.lsu.edu/shsps.aspx

http://datareports.lsu.edu/SHSPLevel1.aspx Level I

http://datareports.lsu.edu/SHSPLevel2.aspx Level 2

http://datareports.lsu.edu/SHSPCrash.aspx Level 3 - Crash

http://datareports.lsu.edu/SHSPDriver.aspx Level 3 - Driver

http://datareports.lsu.edu/SHSPPerson.aspx Level 3 - Person

http://datareports.lsu.edu/SHSPBikePed.aspx Level 3 – Bike/Pedestrian

http://datareports.lsu.edu/SHSPCrashNormalized.aspx Level 3 – Crash Normalized

http://datareports.lsu.edu/SHSPPersonNormalized.aspx Level 3 – Person Normalized