INTACT II - Investigation Network and Traffic Accident Collection Techniques
Road safety is a global area of interest with more than 1.2 million people killed every year, according to WHO. Information from traffic accidents is a necessary foundation to gain knowledge and has for decades been an important base for research in the area, research that have greatly contributed to improved road safety in Sweden as well as intentionally. The objective of this project is to collect new real-world road accident data and to make the collected data available to the Swedish road safety research community. Road safety constantly presents new issues and challenges that require recent in-depth data, to support potentially life-saving research. Creating a transparent and independent in-depth road accident database would benefit the road users, in terms of new interventions and life-saving policies and less suffering. This is achieved by more researchers having access to the data compared to sponsored databases that are normally only available to partners in the particular project. The data collected in this project will contribute to better understanding of the contributing factors leading to accidents and the consequences these entail. Over the past few decades several large collaboration projects, with collection of road accident data and development of analysis methods have been conducted. However, the databases have not been open to all researchers but have helped to put Sweden at the forefront of road safety research.
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The Swedish Research Council
Chalmers