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Citation

You J, Wang J, Guo J. Railw. Eng. Sci. 2017; 25(2): 116-123.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Southwest Jiaotong University and the authors, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s40534-017-0129-7

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Recent advances in intelligent transportation system allow traffic safety studies to extend from historic data-based analyses to real-time applications. The study presents a new method to predict crash likelihood with traffic data collected by discrete loop detectors as well as the web-crawl weather data. Matched case-control method and support vector machines (SVMs) technique were employed to identify the risk status. The adaptive synthetic over-sampling technique was applied to solve the imbalanced dataset issues. Random forest technique was applied to select the contributing factors and avoid the over-fitting issues. The results indicate that the SVMs classifier could successfully classify 76.32% of the crashes on the test dataset and 87.52% of the crashes on the overall dataset, which were relatively satisfactory compared with the results of the previous studies. Compared with the SVMs classifier without the data, the SVMs classifier with the web-crawl weather data increased the crash prediction accuracy by 1.32% and decreased the false alarm rate by 1.72%, showing the potential the potential value of the massive web weather data. Mean impact value method was employed to evaluate the variable effects, and the results are identical with the results of most of previous studies. The emerging technique based on the discrete traffic data and web weather data proves to be more applicable on real-time safety management on freeways.


Language: en

Keywords

Freeways; Highway safety; Data mining; Real time information; Crash risk forecasting

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