Recent Studies from University of Victoria Add New Data to Risk Management (Monitoring city wide patterns of cycling safety)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Data detailed on Risk Management have been presented. According to news reporting out of Victoria, Canada, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "Many cities are making significant financial investments in cycling infrastructure with the aim of making cycling safer for riders of all ages and abilities. Methods for evaluating cycling safety tend to summarize average change for a city or emphasize change on a single road segment."

Financial support for this research came from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Victoria, "Few spatially explicit approaches are available to evaluate how patterns of safety change throughout a city due to cycling infrastructure investments or other changes. Our goal is to demonstrate a method for monitoring changes in the spatial-temporal distribution of cycling incidents across a city. Using cycling incident data provided by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, we first compare planar versus network constrained kernel density estimation for visualizing incident intensity across the street network of Vancouver, Canada. Second, we apply a change detection algorithm explicitly designed for detecting statistically significant change in kernel density estimates. The utility of network kernel density change detection is demonstrated through the comparison of cycling incident densities following the construction of two cycle tracks in the downtown core of Vancouver."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "The methods developed and demonstrated for this study provide city planners, transportation engineers and researchers a means of monitoring city-wide change in the intensity of cycling incidents following enhancements to cycling infrastructure or other significant changes to the transportation network."

For more information on this research see: Monitoring city wide patterns of cycling safety. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2018;111():101-108. Accident Analysis and Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis and Prevention - www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting D. Boss, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada. Additional authors for this research include T. Nelson and M. Winters.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2017.11.008. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, North and Central America, Risk Management, University of Victoria.

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