A just-completed pilot contrive sp...

A just-completed pilot contrive sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration has criterioned the use of GPS, GIS and combinations of as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but in accident investigations. In Dane shire Wis., one of four sites standarded officers employed the technologies to view if they would make collecting and managing accident information quicker and more efficient.

During the exhibition officers used a GPS receiver go uped on a laptop computer and on-screen maps to locate the site of vehicle crashes and fill in the accident forms. Back at the station or highway department, information gathered with the handheld units could then be transferred to a server creating an up-to-date repository of crash positions and particulars. The GIS software was then used at department analysts to query the records and point out the results spatially as a map. The idea is that, eventually, the information will be used at public and private agencies to make the