Transportation systems are being monitored at an unprecedented scope, which is resulting in tremendously detailed traffic and incident databases. Although the transportation community emphasizes developing standards for storing these incident data, little effort has been made to design appropriate visual analytics tools to explore the data, extract meaningful knowledge, and represent results. Analyzing these large multivariate geospatial data sets is a nontrivial task. A novel, web-based, visual analytics tool called Fervor is proposed as an application that affords sophisticated, yet user-friendly, analysis of transportation incident data sets. Interactive maps, histograms, two-dimensional plots, and parallel coordinates plots are four featured visualizations that are integrated to allow users to interact simultaneously with and see relationships among multiple visualizations. Using a rich set of filters, users can create custom conditions to filter data and focus on a smaller data set. However, because of the multivariate nature of the data, finding interesting relationships can be a time-consuming task. Therefore, a rank-by-feature framework has been adopted and further expanded to quantify the strength of relationships among the different fields describing the data. In this paper, transportation incident data collected by the Maryland State Highway Administration's CHART program are used; however, the tool can be easily modified to accept other transportation data sets.


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    Title :

    Visual Analytics for Transportation Incident Data Sets


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record




    Publication date :

    2009-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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