Destinations: Data Visualization of Railway Accidents on the Mumbai Suburban Railway Network

Proceedings of the 7th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2015-12-17 DOI:10.1145/2835966.2836282

Sylvan Lobo

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The Mumbai Suburban Railway, connecting Mumbai and its suburbs, is a lifeline to the city transporting over 8 million commuters daily. The railway suffers from a lot of accidents and fatalities owing primarily to excessive crowding and people crossing tracks. In 2015 itself, there has been an average of 9 fatalities daily. Over the years this accident data has been recorded and maintained by the railway authorities and the railway police. Data visualization has shown to be effective in studying large amounts of data, making it possible to find patterns and insights by simply exploring the data visually. There have been quite a few initiatives to alleviate the situation of accidents on the Mumbai Railway network. Visualizing the accident data could help identify useful information to act upon. In this hope, we have studied the data, and visualized it. Although the resulting findings were not as insightful as hoped, we have developed a few interactive visualizations to communicate the situation, and to explore the data. We also highlight future possibilities and directions of the project.

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目的地:孟买郊区铁路网上的铁路事故数据可视化

连接孟买及其郊区的孟买郊区铁路是这座城市的生命线，每天运送超过800万名通勤者。铁路发生了许多事故和死亡，主要是由于过度拥挤和人们穿越轨道。仅在2015年，平均每天就有9人死亡。多年来，这一事故数据一直由铁路当局和铁路警察记录和保存。数据可视化在研究大量数据方面已被证明是有效的，它可以通过简单地可视化地探索数据来发现模式和见解。为了缓解孟买铁路网的事故情况，已经采取了相当多的举措。可视化事故数据可以帮助识别有用的信息来采取行动。抱着这样的希望，我们研究了这些数据，并将其可视化。虽然最终的发现并不像希望的那样有洞察力，但我们已经开发了一些交互式可视化来传达情况，并探索数据。我们还强调了项目未来的可能性和方向。

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