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Wednesday, May 28, Noon: "A comprehensive approach to geocoding collisions from the California Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS)," presented by John Bigham, MPH, GSR at the UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center. Seminar runs from noon to 1 p.m. Discussion from 1 to 1:30 pm. Held at the American Baptist Seminary of the West, Crouch Library, 2606 Dwight Way, Berkeley. Adjacent to the Traffic Safety Center offices. Email terrimj@berkeley.edu for more information.

This presentation will outline the steps taken to develop a high accuracy system to geocode SWITRS collision data. Using multiple software applications and custom code, TSC has developed a methodology and work flow that takes full advantage of all location information available for collisions in SWITRS. The end result allows more collisions to be geocoded in a more precise manner than previous efforts.

John Bigham is a recent graduate of the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. He obtained a Master's in Public Health with an emphasis in Epidemiology/Biostatistics in May 2008. His background is in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and he received a BS in geography from The Ohio State University. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked several years at the Environmental Systems Research Institute in Redlands, California.

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