“…Over the last two decades, the road accidents studies have been done by using GIS tools, for example, to examine the spatial distribution and pattern of their accidents (Kim & Nitz, 1995;Gundogdu, 2010;Truong & Somenahalli, 2011;Budiharto & Saido, 2012), and to investigate the accident-prone locations (Rankavat & Tiwari, 2013). In the recent years, the combination of GIS and statistical analysis is increasingly more used by many researchers for assessing the road accidents (Steenberghen et al, 2004;Erdogan et al, 2008;Erdogan, 2009, Ma et al, 2014Tortum & Atalay, 2015;Yalcin & Duzgun, 2015;Benedek et al, 2016).…”