A high injury network (sometimes shortened to HIN) is a way of identifying parts of an urban street network with higher rates of traffic injuries or fatalities, typically with a goal of prioritizing these streets for safety interventions. High injury networks have been published by many cities in the US and

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as part of their efforts to work toward Vision Zero. While data on fatalities and collisions have long been available in many municipalities, the first HIN per se was published by

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in 2013, though work on similar efforts had begun there as early as 2011. Creating a HIN is a data-driven exercise, and the analytic methods and data sources used may vary widely. Most HINs are created at the scale of

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where detailed collision data is collected, though regional efforts at defining a more standardized approach also exist.

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