Statistical Analysis of Traffic Accidents Locations Using Geographic Information System in Darbandikhan Town- Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Road traffic accidents are a major cause of premature death and disabilities. Every year the lives of almost 1.24 million people are cut short as a result of a road traffic crash. Between 20 to 50 million more people suffer non-fatal injuries, with many incurring a disability as a result of their injury. Road traffic injuries cause considerable economic losses to victims, their families, and to nations as a whole. These losses arise from the cost of treatment (including rehabilitation and incident investigation) as well as reduced/lost productivity (e.g. in wages) for those killed or disabled by their injuries, and for family member who need to take time off work to care for the injured. The aim of the traffic accident analysis to investigate the cause accidents, to determine hazardous locations and to determine to enhance road features, to evaluate traffic safety after enhancement. This kind of system often includes a database query tool to store and analysis information about accidents mainly to identify high crash locations, in other words hazardous locations along the road [2]. The advancements in using GIS and Remote Sensing techniques can be put to effective use in accident analysis. Although GIS has been used for over thirty years however it has only been recently used in the field of transportation. In addition, to promote linkage between various types of data for easy comprehension. This paper aims to observe and analyzed road accidents hazardous locations recognized according to accidents and traffic data and road information. The main purpose of this paper is to use Statistical GIS techniques, SPSS and high resolution imagery for detecting and determine the most critical accidents points along the external and internal roads of the study area. The study area for this research is Darbandikhan town and their surrounding landscape. Darbandikhan is one of the towns belong to Sulaimani Governance in Kurdistan Region at the northern part of Iraq.