wacrashes: Road Accidents in Western Australia

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Road Accidents in Western Australia

Description

This dataset gives the spatial locations of all road accidents recorded in the state of Western Australia for the year 2011, on the state road network.

These data were published and analysed in Rakshit et al (2019).

Usage

data(wacrashes)

Format

A object of class "lpp" representing the spatial point pattern of accident locations on the network of roads in Western Australia.

Details

The road network has 88,512 intersections and 115,169 road segments. The spatial coordinates are expressed in metres, and the total network length is 97,165,540 metres (97,165 km). The number of accident locations on the network is 14,562.

Source

Main Roads, Western Australia. Made available as part of the Western Australian Whole of Government Open Data Policy.

References

Rakshit, S., Baddeley, A. and Nair, G. (2019) Efficient code for second order analysis of events on a linear network. Journal of Statistical Software 90 (1) 1–37. DOI: 10.18637/jss.v090.i01

Examples

  data(wacrashes)
  wacrashes
  summary(wacrashes)
  plot(wacrashes, cols="red", cex=0.5)

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