Analysis of the Elements of Common Data Set for Road Accidents

Abstract

This qualitative research focused on the analysis of the common data sets for accidents on key roads of the national and international agencies. The study employed an analysis of the contents of related documents based on the the concept of road accident information management of Asia Development Bank and  classifcation approach. The research process was divided into 2 steps: 1) identifcation of the sources of common road accident information which would be later analyzed, and 2) categorization and identifcation of the elements of common road accident data sets. The fndings revealed that there were 103 elements of common road accident data set dividing into 5 categories: 1) events data comprising 13 elements, 2) vehicles data including 26 elements, 3) personal data consisting of 32 elements, 4) road conditions and environments data comprising 26 elements, and 5) supportingdata including 6 elements.