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Enhancing Safety Through Crash Analysis with Business Intelligence Data Software

Learn how crash analysis using BI data software can identify patterns, mitigate severity, and reduce crashes. Explore how the City of Peoria leveraged BI tools for quick responses to safety concerns.

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Enhancing Safety Through Crash Analysis with Business Intelligence Data Software

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  1. Crash Analysis Using Business Intelligence (BI) Data Analysis Software 2019 WesternITE Annual MeetingPresented by Yung Koprowski, PE, PTOE, RSP

  2. Crash Analysis The main purpose of crash analysis is to improve safety by identifying crash patterns, mitigating crash severity, and reducing the number of crashes by adopting suitable countermeasures. The City of Peoria, Arizona desired a tool that would help staff respond quickly and confidently to requests from management and residents.

  3. Columns of Data Incident – 75 Person – 45 Unit – 66 Arizona Motor Vehicle Crash Data

  4. Existing Crash Data Acquisition Arizona Department of Transportation Crash Records Section compiles and maintain a database of all crashes occurring within the state Incident, Person, and Unit .csv file obtained annually each summer for the previous year of data Number Codes Leading, Inner, and Trailing Spaces, misspelled street names

  5. MAG RTSIMS Tool – Exported Report Crash Analysis Drawbacks Accuracy MAG RTSIMS Tool – Query Exported to Excel Formatting Crash Analysis Tool Vendors Manual Pivot Table Queries in Excel & Charts Antiquated, Complex, $$ Time

  6. Business Intelligence(BI) Software Suite of tools designed to source, sort, consolidate, analyze and present complex data into digestible reports for insights Leverages big data and cloud-computing to simplify complex data analysis Easy to deploy, use and integrate with existing systems Standalone applications or part of an enterprise suite

  7. Building the Power BI Report – Connect, Prep, and Transform the Data Relationships Connected the Excel files for the Incident, Person, and Unit crash data. Created a relationship between Incident, Person, and Unit through the “Incident ID” common to each. Applied over 140 steps to de-code attributes, correct data, and add new sorting columns. Code  Text New Columns

  8. Building the Power BI Report – Create Interactive Report Hundreds of modern data visuals from Microsoft and partners Drag-and-drop canvas Design the report with theming, formatting, and layout tools From Power BI Desktop published to Power BI Service (web)

  9. Yung Koprowski, PE, PTOE, RSP • City Traffic Engineer • City of Peoria • Chris.Lemka@peoriaaz.gov • 623.773.7260 Chris Lemka, PE Principal Y2K Engineering, LLC. ykoprowski@y2keng.com 480.696.1701

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