Technological Solutions for Collecting, Analyzing, and Visualizing Traffic Accidents: A Mapping Review

Traffic accidents are the reason that approximately 1.3 million lives are lost worldwide. In addition, between 20 and 50 million people suffer injuries from traffic accidents, which could cause some disability to the people involved. Furthermore, these injuries can cause significant economic losses for the people involved, their families, and the country where the accident occurs. In Mexico, in 2020, traffic accidents occupied the ninth cause of death. Delayed prehospital attention to this type of collision increases the severity of the injuries since sometimes these injuries can be of high impact on the person, and in minutes, they can cause death if they are not treated on time. This paper presents a mapping review to identify which works have been designed and developed with technological systems to support the prevention of traffic accidents. This review was conducted in three main phases: (1) planning, (2) execution, and (3) reporting. In the planning phase, we defined the research questions, the keywords, the search query, and the inclusion and exclusion criteria. In the execution phase, we executed the search query, downloaded and stored the results, and selected the articles based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. We also defined several selection criteria for filtering the results. As a result, the different areas of opportunity that exist with the development of technology for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing traffic accident data are discussed.