Mapping The Texas Triangle

Texas Triangle Tragedies maps the discover of fatal accidents inwards Texas from 2005 to 2014. The map picks out what it calls the 'Texas Triangle', an expanse outlined past times I-35, I-45 as well as I-10, which has a high concentration of traffic accidents.

I similar the consistent blueprint on the interactive map inwards this report. The aesthetic of highway signs is used for the timeline, legend as well as for the data windows. The map itself nevertheless isn't peculiarly revealing. As the introduction to the map points out this expanse has a densely concentrated population. So amongst to a greater extent than people, as well as presumably to a greater extent than traffic, nosotros mightiness await this expanse to convey a higher concentration of accidents than elsewhere inwards the state.

Texas Triangle Tragedies draws attending to the fact that the "number of traffic fatalities has remained relatively apartment comparison the years 2005 as well as 2014". The site's analysis of the notable contributing factors to the traffic accidents is belike to a greater extent than revealing than the map itself. It shows that driving nether the influence is a leading contributor to accidents as well as that "alcohol-related traffic fatalities increased past times to a greater extent than than xx per centum during the fourth dimension period".

If the Texas Triangle Tragedies map included an selection to permit yous to filter the accidents shown past times contributing causes it could maybe reveal only about interesting spatial patterns almost where these dissimilar types of accidents occur.