Highway Accident System (HAS)

Highway Engineering
Traffic, Electrical, Highway Safety and Geometric Standards Section


The Highway Accident System (HAS) allows users to query and analyze data of traffic accidents on Provincial jurisdiction highways. The data comes from the ICBC Traffic Accident System database. Data is available back to 1987. All accidents in the system are located on the Landmark Kilometre Inventory.

HAS User Manual (PDF 376KB)

Last update: September, 2004

Major Functions of HAS

Description

1

Selecting a subset of the collision data

The HAS provides a variety of methods for selecting any subset of the collision data for subsequent analysis.

2

Fatal / Injury / PDO Counts Program

Lists the total number of collisions, the number of fatal/injury/PDO collisions, and the number of fatalities and injuries by year or at each separate location where there is at least one collision.

3

Accident Prone Locations

Provides a list of point locations where user specified thresholds for collision rate, frequency and severity are exceeded, or where one type of collision is occurring disproportionately.

4

Accident Prone Sections

Provides a list of highway segments where user specified thresholds for collision rate, frequency and severity are exceeded, or where one type of collision is occurring disproportionately.

5

Details Report

For each collision in a user specified data subset, the details report provides every piece of information from the MV6020 form (excluding personal information).

6

Summary Report

For each collision in a user specified data subset, the summary report lists the most important fields from the MV6020 form (e.g. collision date, time, location, type, total killed, total injured, primary occurrence, etc.).

7

Collision Histogram

A graphical representation of a segment of road showing the number of collisions of each severity every 100 m.

8

Collision Rate Table

A table where the columns are highway classification, the rows are traffic volume ranges, and a number of different cell entries are possible including, collision rate, fatality rate, critical rate, # or % of fatal, injury and PDO collisions, etc. Used to calculate provincial average collision rates.

9

Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) Reports

Custom tabular reports of the HAS data designed to answer very specific questions. Currently there are 75 different SAS reports.

10

Specified Sections Analysis

Performs accident rate and other analyses on sections of highway defined in an uploaded CSV file.

11

Collision Diagram

Graphical representation of collision locations and collision types at an intersection.