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Chen K, Xu C, Liu P, Li Z, Wang Y. Evaluating the performance of traffic conflict measures in real-time crash risk prediction using pre-crash vehicle trajectories. ACCIDENT; ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION 2024; 203:107640. [PMID: 38759380 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2024.107640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2023] [Revised: 05/02/2024] [Accepted: 05/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024]
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The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of traffic conflict measures for real-time crash risk prediction. Drone recordings were collected from a freeway section in Nanjing, China, over a year. Twenty rear-end crashes and their associated trajectories were obtained. Vehicle trajectories preceding the crash were segmented based on different time periods to represent varying crash conditions. The Extreme Value Theory (EVT) approach combined with a block maxima sampling method was then employed to investigate the generalized extreme value (GEV) distributions of extremely risky events under non-crash and crash conditions. The prediction performance was demonstrated by the differences in GEV distributions under these two conditions. Within the proposed modeling framework, the performances of Time-to-Collision (TTC), Deceleration Rate to Avoid a Crash (DRAC), and Absolute value of Derivative of Instantaneous Acceleration (ADIA) were examined and compared. The results revealed a decreasing trend in the prediction performances as the preceding time window before a crash increased. For any given length of crash conditions, TTC consistently outperformed DRAC and ADIA. Notably, TTC's reliability in crash risk prediction became more uncertain when forecasting crashes more than 2 s in advance. This study provided the optimal thresholds for TTC and ADIA for practical application in crash early warning. The methods and results in this study have the potential to be used for crash risk assessments in autonomous vehicles.
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- Kequan Chen
- School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China.
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- School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China.
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- School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China.
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- School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China.
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- School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China.
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Islam Z, Abdel-Aty M, Anwari N, Islam MR. Understanding the impact of vehicle dynamics, geometric and non-geometric roadway attributes on surrogate safety measure using connected vehicle data. ACCIDENT; ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION 2023; 189:107125. [PMID: 37263045 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2023] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Traditional safety research mostly relies on accident data to analyze the precedents to a crash. Alternatively, surrogate safety measures have the potential to proactively evaluate safety events. The era of connected vehicles and smart sensing has brought about tremendous innovations in safety research. GPS data from such vehicles form a useful case of big data analytics where surrogate safety measures have largely been unexplored. In this paper, we propose time to collision estimation from connected vehicle GPS data. The vehicle dynamics such as speed, acceleration, yaw rate, etc. are then coupled with geometric and non-geometric roadway attributes to understand the contributing factors for a traffic conflict. The dataset contains 2,568,421 GPS points from 14,753 unique journeys. 1:4 ratio of conflict to non-conflict events was used to select 15,258 samples with 28 independent vehicle dynamics, geometric, and non-geometric variables. Binary logit model was used to investigate the relationship of these variables with conflicts. Model results showed that out of 28 independent variables, 6 independent variables and 7 interaction variables were found significant. The results showed some interesting and unique relations of these variables with conflicts. Based on these significant variables, k-means clustering was performed to understand the threshold for the significant values for which the number of conflicts is significantly increased. Results from k-means clustering and two sample binomial proportion t-tests revealed that when absolute acceleration crossed 0.8 m/s2, conflict probability increased by 8 percentage points. Moreover, when the yaw rate crossed 8 degrees/s, the conflict probability doubled. Besides, vehicles traveling at more than 140% of the recommended speed limit increased conflict probability by 7 percentage points.
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- Zubayer Islam
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
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Wang Y, Xu J, Liu X, Zheng Z, Zhang H, Wang C. Analysis on Risk Characteristics of Traffic Accidents in Small-Spacing Expressway Interchange. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:9938. [PMID: 36011573 PMCID: PMC9408132 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19169938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Many small-spacing interchanges (SSI) appear when the density of the expressway interchanges increases. However, the characteristics of traffic accidents in SSI have not been explained clearly. Therefore, this paper systematically takes the G3001 expressway in Xi'an as the research object to explore the accident characteristics of SSI. Firstly, the expressway is divided into four sections. Furthermore, their safety can be evaluated by the number of accidents per unit distance of 100 million vehicles (NAP). Subsequently, eight indexes, such as mean spacing distance (MSD), are selected to explain the cause affecting expressway safety by developing the least square support vector machine (LSSVM). Secondly, the difference between SSI and normal-spacing interchanges (NSI) is clarified by statistical analysis. Finally, LSSVM, random forest, and logistic regression models are built using 12 indicators, such as the time spent exploring the causes of serious accidents. The results show that the inner ring NAP in Sections I and II with SSI is 27.2 and 33.7, higher than in other sections. The density, annual average daily traffic, and MSD adversely affect expressway traffic safety. The road condition mainly influences the serious traffic accidents in the SSI. This study can provide the theoretical basis for traffic management and accident prevention in the SSI of the expressway.
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- Yanpeng Wang
- School of Traffic and Transportation, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
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- School of Traffic and Transportation, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of “Human-Vehicle-Road” Cooperation and Safety for Mountain Complex Environment, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
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- School of Traffic and Transportation, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
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- School of Traffic and Transportation, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
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- School of Traffic and Transportation, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
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- School of Traffic and Transportation, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
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Wang L, Wang K, Ma W, Abdel-Aty M, Li L. Real-time safety analysis for expressways considering the heterogeneity of different segment types. JOURNAL OF SAFETY RESEARCH 2022; 80:349-361. [PMID: 35249615 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2021.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Revised: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Studies have proven that the crash possibility and crash type are not the same among different expressway segment types. However, few studies have conducted real-time safety analysis considering different segment types. This study aimed to explore the crash mechanism's heterogeneity for different segment types (i.e., merge, diverge, weaving, and basic segments). METHOD To enable in-depth exploration, this study used detailed traffic data, which were 0-10 min before crash, at 1-min intervals, and from five detectors of both the upstream and downstream to the target segment. This study analyzed the crash mechanism's heterogeneity from the following aspects: crash characteristics, significant crash contributing variables, and variables' importance. Based on this, a variables selection method was proposed to solve the huge dimension scale in modeling. Then, a nested logit model was built, which could consider the crash mechanism's heterogeneity, to quantitatively analyze the impact of crash contributing factors on the crash risk. RESULTS The results revealed that there are statistically significant differences in crash characteristics between each segment type. Additionally, the sources of most crash contributing factors were found to be significantly different in the spatial-temporal dimension between each segment type. Moreover, this study found that the weather parameter, indicating pavement's wet condition, had a similar effect on crash risk between different segment types. However, the geometry and traffic parameters had significantly different impacts between different segment types. Moreover, when the number of target segments' upstream ramps increases or when the distance between ramps and the target segment decreases, the crash risk would increase. Practical Applications: This study can be applied in the intelligent transportation system to improve traffic safety performance, especially in active traffic management systems.
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- Ling Wang
- The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University, 4800 Cao'an Road, Shanghai 201804, PR China.
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- The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University, 4800 Cao'an Road, Shanghai 201804, PR China.
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- The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University, 4800 Cao'an Road, Shanghai 201804, PR China.
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- Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2450, United States.
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- Tsinghua University, 30 Shuangqing Road, Beijing 201804, PR China; Shanghai international Automobile City Corporation, 888 Moyu South Road, Shanghai 201804, PR China.
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Formosa N, Quddus M, Papadoulis A, Timmis A. Validating a Traffic Conflict Prediction Technique for Motorways Using a Simulation Approach. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:566. [PMID: 35062527 PMCID: PMC8780870 DOI: 10.3390/s22020566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Revised: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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With the ever-increasing advancements in the technology of driver assistant systems, there is a need for a comprehensive way to identify traffic conflicts to avoid collisions. Although significant research efforts have been devoted to traffic conflict techniques applied for junctions, there is dearth of research on these methods for motorways. This paper presents the validation of a traffic conflict prediction algorithm applied to a motorway scenario in a simulated environment. An automatic video analysis system was developed to identify lane change and rear-end conflicts as ground truth. Using these conflicts, the prediction ability of the traffic conflict technique was validated in an integrated simulation framework. This framework consisted of a sub-microscopic simulator, which provided an appropriate testbed to accurately simulate the components of an intelligent vehicle, and a microscopic traffic simulator able to generate the surrounding traffic. Results from this framework show that for a 10% false alarm rate, approximately 80% and 73% of rear-end and lane change conflicts were accurately predicted, respectively. Despite the fact that the algorithm was not trained using the virtual data, the sensitivity was high. This highlights the transferability of the algorithm to similar road networks, providing a benchmark for the identification of traffic conflict and a relevant step for developing safety management strategies for autonomous vehicles.
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- Nicolette Formosa
- School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK; (N.F.); (A.T.)
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK; (N.F.); (A.T.)
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Influence of Weather Conditions on the Intercity Travel Mode Choice: A Case of Xi'an. COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE 2021; 2021:9969322. [PMID: 34475950 PMCID: PMC8407973 DOI: 10.1155/2021/9969322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2021] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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To explore the influence of weather conditions on the choice of the intercity travel mode of travelers, four modes of traveler transportation were studied in Xi'an, China, in March 2019: airplane, high-speed rail, conventional train, and express bus. The individual characteristics of travelers and intercity travel activity data were obtained, and they were matched with the weather characteristics at the departure time of the travelers. The Bayesian multinomial logit regression was employed to explore the relationship between the travel mode choice and weather characteristics. The results showed that temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind, air quality index, and visibility had significant effects on the travel mode selection of travelers, and the addition of these variables could improve the model's predictive performance. The research results can provide a scientific decision basis for traveler flow transfer and the prediction of traffic modes choice due to the effects of climate change.
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Zhao J, Liu P, Xu C, Bao J. Understand the impact of traffic states on crash risk in the vicinities of Type A weaving segments: A deep learning approach. ACCIDENT; ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION 2021; 159:106293. [PMID: 34252581 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2021.106293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Revised: 05/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the impacts of traffic states on crash risk in the vicinities of Type A weaving segments. A deep convolutional embedded clustering (DCEC) was developed to classify traffic flow into nine states. The proposed DCEC outperformed the three common clustering algorithms, i.e. K-means, deep embedded clustering, and deep convolutional autoencoders clustering, in terms of silhouette coefficient and calinski-harabaz index on the same samples, suggesting that the DCEC provides better clustering performance. The characteristics of the nine traffic states are described for the right and inside lanes separately. The DCED visualization indicates that the spatiotemporal features of the nine traffic states are different from each other. The empirical analyses suggest that crash severity and the main types of crashes are different across the nine traffic states. The results of the logistic regression model prove that the nine traffic states are significantly associated with crash risk in the vicinities of weaving segments, and each traffic state can be assigned with a unique safety level. The convolutional neural network with gated convolutional layers (G-CNN) was developed to predict the crash risk in each traffic state. Compared with the traditional four traffic states classification based on 4-phase traffic theory, the model incorporating the various crash mechanisms across the nine traffic states provides more accurate predictions.
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- Jingya Zhao
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China
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- School of Civil Aviation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Jiangjun Road# 29, Nanjing 211106, China.
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Wang X, Cao Y, Jiang P, Niu L, Lyu N. The safety effect of open-median management on one-side widened freeways: A driving simulation evaluation. JOURNAL OF SAFETY RESEARCH 2020; 73:57-67. [PMID: 32563409 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2020.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Revised: 12/09/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Highway expansions and upgrades are often required to increase road network capacity. The widening of one side of a highway, referred to as 'one-side widening,' is sometimes implemented in these highway expansion projects. During one-side widening, to save costs, openings can be configured on existing medians (as opposed to removing the existing medians altogether). The median openings allow vehicles in the outer lanes to enter the inner lanes, but they also raise safety concerns and may require alternate open-median management strategies for traffic authorities. There is little existing research that has evaluated the safety effect of these open-median management strategies. METHOD To bridge this gap, this study proposes a procedure that evaluates the safety of open-median management strategies for one-side widened highways. The proposed procedure was implemented through driving simulation experiments on a section of Binlai Freeway in Shandong, China. First, the minimum location requirements for median openings were determined by calculating the short length of the weaving segment. Then, simulation tests were carried out to observe driving performance and workload measures. RESULTS The results indicate that the procedure successfully evaluates the safety effect of open-median management strategies for one-side widened freeways. It was also found that driving performance and workload are sensitive to the opening length and traffic flow. CONCLUSIONS Therefore, median opening placement should be carefully selected in consideration of not only driving performance and workload but also traffic volume predictions. Practical Applications: The findings in this study can guide open-median management strategies for traffic safety one-side widened highways.
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- Xu Wang
- School of Qilu Transportation, Shandong University, China.
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- Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, China.
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- School of Qilu Transportation, Shandong University, China.
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- Shandong Transportation Research Institute, China
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- Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, China.
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Lyu N, Cao Y, Wu C, Thomas AF, Wang X. Driving behavior and safety analysis at OSMS section for merged, one-way freeway based on simulated driving safety analysis of driving behaviour. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0228238. [PMID: 32053620 PMCID: PMC7018042 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2019] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In order to study driving performance at the opening section of median strip (hereafter OSMS) on the freeway capacity expansion project, this study separately controlled 9 different simulated experimental scenarios of OSMS length and freeway traffic flow. 25 participants were recruited to perform 225 simulated driving tests using the driving simulator, and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze the driving characteristics which can represent the safety context. The results show that the safety parameters of driving are different when the length of OSMS and the traffic flow are different. When the traffic flow is low or moderate, the OSMS length can significantly affect the speed of the vehicle and the maximum values of time to collision. The higher the traffic flow, the smaller the minimum values of time headway. As the length of the OSMS decreases, the vehicles are more generally concentrated at the end of the opening area with the minimum values of time headway. The study also found that when the traffic volume is high, the impact of the OSMS length on driving performance will be weakened. In addition, the OSMS length and the traffic flow have little impact on driving comfort. Additionally, when the traffic flow is low or moderate, the opening length can significantly affect the driving behavior and safety of the vehicle. However, when the traffic volume is high, the impact of the opening length on them will be relatively weakened to some extent. Therefore, it is advised that in the case of freeways with large traffic volume, merely extending the length of the opening section does not necessarily optimize safety. Rather, the actual traffic density of the road should be carefully considered before a design length is adopted.
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- Nengchao Lyu
- Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- School of Transportation, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Yang B, Liu P, Chan CY, Xu C, Guo Y. Identifying the crash characteristics on freeway segments based on different ramp influence areas. TRAFFIC INJURY PREVENTION 2019; 20:386-391. [PMID: 31021664 DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2019.1588965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 02/26/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Objective: This study aimed to explore the relationship between crash types and different freeway segments and identify the factors contributing to crashes on different freeway segments. Unlike most of the previous studies on freeway segments, this study separately investigates basic freeway segments, single ramp influence segments, and multiple ramp influence segments. Methods: Nonlinear canonical correlation analysis (NLCCA) and proportionality test were used to identify the relationship between crash types and different freeway segments. The data sets for the different freeway segments accumulated for this study consist of 9,867 crash samples with complete information on all 22 chosen variables. A multinomial logit model (MNL) was used to estimate the influence of crash factors on different freeway segments. Results: The results show that weaving and diverge overlap influence segments (WD) are more likely to have injury or fatal crashes; diverge and diverge overlap influence segments (DD) are more likely to have property damage-only (PDO) crashes; merge and merge overlap influence segments (MM) are more likely to have sideswipe crashes; and WD have non-sideswipe crashes; WD and weaving overlap influence segments (MW) are more likely to have rear end crashes; and MM segments are less likely to have hit object crashes. The contributing factors are identified by MNL and the results show that different traffic variables, environmental variables, vehicle variables, driver variables, and geometric variables significantly affected the likelihood of crashes on different freeway segments. Conclusions: Investigation of crash types and factors contributing to crashes on different freeway segments is based on multiple ramp influence segments, which can promote a better understanding of the safety performance of various freeway segments.
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- Bo Yang
- a Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS , Southeast University , Jiangsu , China
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- a Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS , Southeast University , Jiangsu , China
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- b California PATH , University of California at Berkeley , Berkeley , California
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- a Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS , Southeast University , Jiangsu , China
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- c Department of Civil Engineering , The University of British Columbia , BC , Canada
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Hossain M, Abdel-Aty M, Quddus MA, Muromachi Y, Sadeek SN. Real-time crash prediction models: State-of-the-art, design pathways and ubiquitous requirements. ACCIDENT; ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION 2019; 124:66-84. [PMID: 30634160 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2018.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2018] [Revised: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 12/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Proactive traffic safety management systems can monitor traffic conditions in real-time, identify the formation of unsafe traffic dynamics, and implement suitable interventions to bring unsafe conditions back to normal traffic situations. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, sensor fusion and algorithms have brought about the introduction of a proactive safety management system closer to reality. The basic prerequisite for developing such a system is to have a reliable crash prediction model that takes real-time traffic data as input and evaluates their association with crash risk. Since the early 21st century, several studies have focused on developing such models. Although the idea has considerably matured over time, the endeavours have been quite discrete and fragmented at best because the fundamental aspects of the overall modelling approach substantially vary. Therefore, a number of transitional challenges have to be identified and subsequently addressed before a ubiquitous proactive safety management system can be formulated, designed and implemented in real-world scenarios. This manuscript conducts a comprehensive review of existing real-time crash prediction models with the aim of illustrating the state-of-the-art and systematically synthesizing the thoughts presented in existing studies in order to facilitate its translation from an idea into a ready to use technology. Towards that journey, it conducts a systematic review by applying various text mining methods and topic modelling. Based on the findings, this paper ascertains the development pathways followed in various studies, formulates the ubiquitous design requirements of such models from existing studies and knowledge of similar systems. Finally, this study evaluates the universality and design compatibility of existing models. This paper is, therefore, expected to serve as a one stop knowledge source for facilitating a faster transition from the idea of real-time crash prediction models to a real-world operational proactive traffic safety management system.
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- Moinul Hossain
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh
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- Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, USA
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- School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE113TU, UK.
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- Urban Design and Built Environment Graduate Major, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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- Department of Civil Engineering, IUBAT-International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Bangladesh
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Guo Y, Li Z, Wu Y, Xu C. Exploring unobserved heterogeneity in bicyclists' red-light running behaviors at different crossing facilities. ACCIDENT; ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION 2018; 115:118-127. [PMID: 29558688 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2018.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2017] [Revised: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 03/04/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Bicyclists running the red light at crossing facilities increase the potential of colliding with motor vehicles. Exploring the contributing factors could improve the prediction of running red-light probability and develop countermeasures to reduce such behaviors. However, individuals could have unobserved heterogeneities in running a red light, which make the accurate prediction more challenging. Traditional models assume that factor parameters are fixed and cannot capture the varying impacts on red-light running behaviors. In this study, we employed the full Bayesian random parameters logistic regression approach to account for the unobserved heterogeneous effects. Two types of crossing facilities were considered which were the signalized intersection crosswalks and the road segment crosswalks. Electric and conventional bikes were distinguished in the modeling. Data were collected from 16 crosswalks in urban area of Nanjing, China. Factors such as individual characteristics, road geometric design, environmental features, and traffic variables were examined. Model comparison indicates that the full Bayesian random parameters logistic regression approach is statistically superior to the standard logistic regression model. More red-light runners are predicted at signalized intersection crosswalks than at road segment crosswalks. Factors affecting red-light running behaviors are gender, age, bike type, road width, presence of raised median, separation width, signal type, green ratio, bike and vehicle volume, and average vehicle speed. Factors associated with the unobserved heterogeneity are gender, bike type, signal type, separation width, and bike volume.
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- Yanyong Guo
- Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, 6250 Applied Science Lane, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada; Southeast University Road #2, Nanjing, 211189, China; School of Transportation, Southeast University Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing, 210096, China.
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- Southeast University Road #2, Nanjing, 211189, China; School of Transportation, Southeast University Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing, 210096, China.
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- Southeast University Road #2, Nanjing, 211189, China; School of Transportation, Southeast University Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing, 210096, China.
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- Southeast University Road #2, Nanjing, 211189, China; School of Transportation, Southeast University Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing, 210096, China.
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Xu C, Wang W, Liu P, Li Z. Calibration of crash risk models on freeways with limited real-time traffic data using Bayesian meta-analysis and Bayesian inference approach. ACCIDENT; ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION 2015; 85:207-218. [PMID: 26468977 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2014] [Revised: 09/09/2015] [Accepted: 09/23/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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This study aimed to develop a real-time crash risk model with limited data in China by using Bayesian meta-analysis and Bayesian inference approach. A systematic review was first conducted by using three different Bayesian meta-analyses, including the fixed effect meta-analysis, the random effect meta-analysis, and the meta-regression. The meta-analyses provided a numerical summary of the effects of traffic variables on crash risks by quantitatively synthesizing results from previous studies. The random effect meta-analysis and the meta-regression produced a more conservative estimate for the effects of traffic variables compared with the fixed effect meta-analysis. Then, the meta-analyses results were used as informative priors for developing crash risk models with limited data. Three different meta-analyses significantly affect model fit and prediction accuracy. The model based on meta-regression can increase the prediction accuracy by about 15% as compared to the model that was directly developed with limited data. Finally, the Bayesian predictive densities analysis was used to identify the outliers in the limited data. It can further improve the prediction accuracy by 5.0%.
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- Chengcheng Xu
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China.
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Pirdavani A, De Pauw E, Brijs T, Daniels S, Magis M, Bellemans T, Wets G. Application of a Rule-Based Approach in Real-Time Crash Risk Prediction Model Development Using Loop Detector Data. TRAFFIC INJURY PREVENTION 2015; 16:786-791. [PMID: 25793926 DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2015.1017572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVES There is a growing trend in development and application of real-time crash risk prediction models within dynamic safety management systems. These real-time crash risk prediction models are constructed by associating crash data with the real-time traffic surveillance data (e.g., collected by loop detectors). The main objective of this article is to develop a real-time risk model that will potentially be utilized within traffic management systems. This model aims to predict the likelihood of crash occurrence on motorways. METHODS In this study, the potential prediction variables are confined to traffic-related characteristics. Given that the dependent variable (i.e., traffic safety condition) is dichotomous (i.e., "no-crash" or "crash"), a rule-based approach is considered for model development. The performance of rule-based classifiers is further compared with the more conventional techniques like binary logistic regression and decision trees. The crash and traffic data used in this study were collected between June 2009 and December 2011 on a part of the E313 motorway in Belgium between Geel-East and Antwerp-East exits, on the direction toward Antwerp. RESULTS The results of analysis show that several traffic flow characteristics such as traffic volume, average speed, and standard deviation of speed at the upstream loop detector station and the difference in average speed on upstream and downstream loop detector stations significantly contribute to the crash occurrence prediction. The final chosen classifier is able to predict 70% of crash occasions accurately, and it correctly predicts 90% of no-crash instances, indicating a 10% false alarm rate. CONCLUSIONS The findings of this study can be used to predict the likelihood of crash occurrence on motorways within dynamic safety management systems.
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- Ali Pirdavani
- a Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), School for Transportation Sciences, Hasselt University , Diepenbeek , Belgium
- b Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) , Brussels , Belgium
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- a Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), School for Transportation Sciences, Hasselt University , Diepenbeek , Belgium
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- a Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), School for Transportation Sciences, Hasselt University , Diepenbeek , Belgium
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- a Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), School for Transportation Sciences, Hasselt University , Diepenbeek , Belgium
- b Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) , Brussels , Belgium
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- a Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), School for Transportation Sciences, Hasselt University , Diepenbeek , Belgium
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- a Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), School for Transportation Sciences, Hasselt University , Diepenbeek , Belgium
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- a Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), School for Transportation Sciences, Hasselt University , Diepenbeek , Belgium
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