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Crowdsourced Traffic Data as an Emerging Tool to Monitor Car Crashes

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: More than 100 deaths daily and 2.5 million emergency department visits each year result from motor vehicle crashes, making motor vehicle crashes a leading cause of death in the United States.1,2 Reducing ambulance and emergency department treatment response time for crash patients could markedly save lives.3 We evaluated whether data from the crowdsourced traffic application Waze (Google) might be used to detect motor vehicle crashes faster than current reporting methods.

Source: JAMA Surgery

DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.1167

Authors: Sean D. Young, Wei Wang, Bharath Chakravarthy

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Irvine

Language: English

Topic: Trauma and Emergency Care Studies

Subfield: Emergency Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases