Citation

Huang H, Chang F, Zhou H, Lee J. Anal. Meth. Accid. Res. 2019; 24: e100105.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.amar.2019.100105

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study applies mixture components in a multivariate random parameters spatial model for zonal crash counts. Three different modeling formulations are employed to demonstrate the effects of mixture components and spatial heterogeneity in the goodness-of-fit in a multivariate random parameter model. The models are built for injury (i.e., possible, non-incapacitating, incapacitating, and fatal injury) and non-injury crashes using the data from 738 traffic analysis zones (TAZs) in Hillsborough County of Florida during a three-year period. The Deviance Information Criteria (DIC) is used to evaluate the performances of these models indicate the proposed model outperforms the rests. According to the estimated results, various traffic-related, demographics, and socioeconomic factors affect the occurrences of crashes for different severity levels. With regard to the effect of mixture components, it identifies two homogeneous sub-classes labeled as "stable pattern" and "unstable pattern" to better capture the heterogeneity. The standard deviation (SD) and correlation across injury and non-injury crashes are both very high in the "stable pattern" compared with its "unstable pattern" counterpart. On the other hand, the results of model comparison reveal that: (i) adding one more mixture component has no significant influences on the spatial heterogeneity and spatial correlation of different kinds of crash frequency and (ii) the consideration of spatial effects improves the accuracy of estimate results. Moreover, the multivariate random parameters spatial model with mixture components was compared with its univariate form to highlight the validity of applying multivariate structure.

Language: en

Keywords

Mixture components; Multivariate structure; Random-parameters model; Spatial correlation