Traffic Accidents

Marco Koch
Jul. 27th 2014

Introduction

  • This analysis is about events leading to traffic accidents in Germany.
  • Traffic accident data 'Unfallbeteiligte: Deutschland, Jahre, Art der Verkehrsbeteiligung, Fehlverhalten der Fahrzeugführer und Fußgänger' has been downloaded from GENESIS-Online database
  • Link: https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online/link/tabellen/46241*
  • ©Statistisches Bundesamt , Wiesbaden 2014
  • Data downloaded: Jul. 20th, 2014

Data Processing

The following steps has been applied to the raw data:

  • Develop R function to read a specified section from the Excel source file and perform basic clean up
  • Read data for each vehicle type
  • Combine all information into one large data set
  • Translate vehicle types and events to English language
data$EventType[data$EventType=="Nicht angepasste Geschwindigkeit"] <- "High speed"

Results

Several interesting plots and queries can be performed on the data, e.g.

  • Plot all events related to the accidents
  • Top three passenger cars events causing an accident in 2013
[1] "Wrong turn / Reversing error / Wrong start up"
[2] "Violate right of way"                         
[3] "Other faults of driver"

Results

The following sample plot shows all passenger cars events from 2008 until 2013. plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-4

Shiny IO Application

Screen

http://marco.shinyapps.io/traffic