Quantitative analysis of traffic accidents in the urban centers of Wasit Governorate by Using Gis for the period 2010-2020

Abstract

The problem of traffic accidents has become a clear burden in most of the Iraqi governorates, as its numbers have increased from year to year clearly and tangibly as a result of the rapid development in the size of internal and external road networks and the need to use the car as a main means of transportation by members of society, which led to an increase in its numbers and an increase in traffic density on This is in addition to the economic development witnessed by the region and the accompanying development in the field of transport services in general and land transport in particular.

This study came to study the geographical distribution of traffic accidents in the urban centers of Wasit Governorate using the Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and concerning the data of traffic accidents in the urban centers of Wasit Governorate for the period (2010 - 2020), the results of the study of statistical analysis of traffic accidents using GIS techniques showed the emergence of Hot spots for traffic accidents in the urban centers of Wasit governorate northwest of Wasit governorate center, with their three levels of confidence. Also, the inverse IDW method after calibration gave values close to the real values with an error rate not exceeding 10 errors by which it is possible to predict the number of traffic accidents in places where there are no traffic accident statistics.