Manuel Alejandro Mercado Macias
Road Safety Assessment and Diagnosis of Local Road Networks through a Spatial-Temporal Analysis.
Rel. Marco Bassani, Luca Tefa, Alessandra Lioi. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Civil Engineering, 2025
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Road safety is a critical issue that requires a comprehensive understanding of accident risk factors and the spatial distribution of hazardous road locations (HRLs). This thesis focuses on identifying HRLs in the Piedmont Region (Italy) using spatial-temporal analysis, particularly with Kernel Density Estimations (KDEs) and employing GIS-based modeling. Despite significant advancements in road safety across Italy, urban road networks with complex traffic patterns continue to face challenges, making it essential to identify crash-prone locations, so the road infrastructure administration can implement effective countermeasures by prioritizing safety interventions based on realistic analyses’ results. All the work is grounded in the understanding of Density-Based Methods functionality, more specifically with KDEs, and general insights into data spatial distribution.
Even though all the obtained results were reached by implementing KDEs, considering the theoretical principles from spatial distribution of points, it was possible to identify accident clusters
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