Gyeonggi Province Selects 172 Areas for Intensive Traffic Safety Management Based on Road Data Analysis

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hun] Gyeonggi Province announced on the 12th that it has selected 172 areas for concentrated traffic safety management by analyzing 997,766 cases of unexpected traffic incidents that occurred on Gyeonggi Province roads from 2017 to September 2020, as part of its ongoing data analysis projects for scientifically-based provincial governance.

The data, held by the Gyeonggi Province Traffic Information Center, includes road incident data such as traffic accidents, vehicle breakdowns, emergency construction, and fallen objects on roads in Gyeonggi Province, obtained from SKT (T Map), Korean Expressway Corporation, Road Traffic Authority, Gyeonggi Province Fire Department, and Seoul Metropolitan Expressway.

In the analysis process, Gyeonggi Province first divided the entire province into approximately 1 million grids of 100m × 100m in size and input unexpected incident data corresponding to each grid.

Subsequently, a five-level risk rating was calculated and classified by grid at the city and county level, and the management areas of traffic CCTV currently installed and operated in Gyeonggi Province were additionally inputted.

Through this process, Gyeonggi Province selected 172 areas for intensive traffic safety management across the province, and additionally selected 879 areas for recommended management.

Gyeonggi Province actively utilized the data analysis results in the province's traffic policy and provided the analysis results to cities and counties, recommending they actively apply them to national subsidy project applications and traffic policies.

Lim Moon-young, Director of Future Growth Policy at Gyeonggi Province, said, "We focused on providing analysis results that can be applied to policy through data analysis specifically needed by working departments," and added, "We will continue to make active efforts to provide customized, demand-oriented data analysis on provincial governance issues."