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Towards a proposal to decrease road accidents in Ecuador: Requirements derived from a secondary study

Abstract:

Context: 1.2 million people die around the world due to road traffic accidents (RTA) every year. This situation is particularly critical in Ecuador, because of the number of people died is 28 for every 100,000 inhabitants, a higher number than 18, the overall average around the world. This situation ranked Ecuador second in Latin-America RTA. There are nowadays different technological solutions to control RTA, which is not consistent with the Ecuadorian reality, possibly because of (among other causes) funds are not allocated to research in this field. Aim: To gather requirements to structure a current, compact, generic and low-cost technological model to reduce the road accident rate in Ecuador. Method: We carried out a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) on Scopus, Springer, IEEE, ACM, and Science Direct digital databases. Results: The SMS process obtained 16 primary studies as of April 2018. Conclusions: There are many technological proposals that have covered the requirements to reduce RTA, many of which are low cost and can be combined.