BLACKSBURG, Va., Aug. 24 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Every day, law enforcement officers across Virginia respond to an average of 330 traffic crashes, one every four minutes. Their reports documenting what happened are an excellent source of data - and researchers from Virginia Tech's Center for Geospatial Information Technology (CGIT) have transformed them into a comprehensive road safety data resource that saves lives.
For more than a decade, Kathleen Hancock, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Brandon Herndon, director of CGIT, have led a collaborative effort to transform 1.8 million crash reports into a suite of digital tools offering accurate crash infor...