Identification and Analysis of Accident-prone Areas of Hamadan city (Case Study: Hamadan city, 2022)

Today, with the increasing statistics of accidents, it shows the necessity of creating safety and traffic engineering on the roads, in order to reduce accidents; then accident-prone points must be identified, so that the necessary measures can be taken in this direction. This research aims to identify and analyze the accident-prone areas of Hamadan city.

The current research is applied in terms of its purpose and descriptive-analytical and inferential in terms of its nature and implementation method and is of a quantitative type. Using the accident statistics of Hamadan city in 2022, regarding the segmentation of roads, and with the methods of identifying accident-prone areas, including accident frequency method, accident rate and equal index, accident-prone parts have been identified and ranked.

In this research, it was shown that if the method of frequency of accidents is detect the accident-prone points, highway passages are determined as the accident-prone points, but if the accident rate method is used, the intersections squares are the accident points are identified and if the same method is used, the boulevards and highways will be an accident-prone spot.

In this research, it was shown that different methods of determining accident-prone points give different results, and for this reason, it is necessary for researchers to choose the appropriate method depending on the type of their research. This research is also interesting for municipalities, highways and traffic police to pay attention to the type of roads in the reports related to safety.