Ali Soltani, Omid Mansourihanis, Mohsen RoohaniQadikolaei, Ayda Zaroujtaghi
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Abstract
Globally, road crashes impose massive burdens, and understanding the complex factors influencing crash patterns requires advanced analytical methods. This study reviews 20 years of published literature on geospatial crash analysis to chart key innovations shaping this critical field. The analysis reveals a progression from fundamental mapping approaches towards integrative predictive modelling and dynamic risk monitoring leveraging diverse data sources. While crash records and road networks remain core datasets, aerial imagery, social media, weather, infrastructure attributes, and traffic data have become increasingly incorporated. Techniques have evolved from hotspot analysis to sophisticated machine learning algorithms automating crash prediction and factor analysis. Research objectives now emphasize not just pattern identification but predictive risk modelling, and there is an increased focus on prevention through improved emergency response, infrastructure enhancements, and targeted countermeasures. Interactive 3D visualizations and virtual reality applications are enhancing geospatial communication and decision-making. As geospatial innovations and data integration accelerate, this continuously advancing field holds tremendous potential to guide proactive evidence-based road safety planning. However, validating analysis approaches and assessing geographic transferability remain critical research needs. By synthesizing two decades of developments, this study provides key perspectives to harness geospatial technology innovations and unlock new frontiers in data-driven road crash prevention worldwide.
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The journal has an applied focus: it actively promotes the importance of geographical research in real world settings
It is policy-relevant: it seeks both a readership and contributions from practitioners as well as academics
The substantive foundation is spatial analysis: the use of quantitative techniques to identify patterns and processes within geographic environments
The combination of these points, which are fully reflected in the naming of the journal, establishes a unique position in the marketplace.
RationaleA geographical perspective has always been crucial to the understanding of the social and physical organisation of the world around us. The techniques of spatial analysis provide a powerful means for the assembly and interpretation of evidence, and thus to address critical questions about issues such as crime and deprivation, immigration and demographic restructuring, retailing activity and employment change, resource management and environmental improvement. Many of these issues are equally important to academic research as they are to policy makers and Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy aims to close the gap between these two perspectives by providing a forum for discussion of applied research in a range of different contexts
Topical and interdisciplinaryIncreasingly government organisations, administrative agencies and private businesses are requiring research to support their ‘evidence-based’ strategies or policies. Geographical location is critical in much of this work which extends across a wide range of disciplines including demography, actuarial sciences, statistics, public sector planning, business planning, economics, epidemiology, sociology, social policy, health research, environmental management.
FocusApplied Spatial Analysis and Policy will draw on applied research from diverse problem domains, such as transport, policing, education, health, environment and leisure, in different international contexts. The journal will therefore provide insights into the variations in phenomena that exist across space, it will provide evidence for comparative policy analysis between domains and between locations, and stimulate ideas about the translation of spatial analysis methods and techniques across varied policy contexts. It is essential to know how to measure, monitor and understand spatial distributions, many of which have implications for those with responsibility to plan and enhance the society and the environment in which we all exist.
Readership and Editorial BoardAs a journal focused on applications of methods of spatial analysis, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy will be of interest to scholars and students in a wide range of academic fields, to practitioners in government and administrative agencies and to consultants in private sector organisations. The Editorial Board reflects the international and multidisciplinary nature of the journal.
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