Method and system for automatically selecting and displaying traffic images

A method for displaying an image, comprising:

• receiving travel information from a user device corresponding to at least its current location;
• comparing geographical coordinates included in the received travel information to polygon records in a polygon database;
• determining a polygon record from the polygon database for which the boundaries of a corresponding polygon surround the geographical coordinates contained in the received travel information;
• and
• determining one of a plurality of image links corresponding to one of a plurality of cameras corresponding to the determined polygon record;
• and
• displaying an image corresponding to the determined image link.

A method for assessing risk for a road section, comprising:

• receiving samples of performance data from at least one data acquisition device associated with a corresponding at least one vehicle, wherein each sample of performance data is associated with a polygon identifier corresponding to a geographical polygon that bounds the location of the at least one vehicle when the sample was acquired;
• determining that performance data corresponding to at least one polygon has exceeded a threshold;
• and
• generating a report that performance data for the at least one polygon indicates that a road portion corresponding to the at least one polygon may present a risk rank higher than a rank for a road portion associated with another polygon.