Traffic safety risks trends and patterns analysis on motorways


Autoria(s): Hamzehei, Asso; Chung, Edward; Miska, Marc
Data(s)

12/01/2014

Resumo

Crashes that occur on motorways contribute to a significant proportion (40-50%) of non-recurrent motorway congestion. Hence, reducing the frequency of crashes assist in addressing congestion issues (Meyer, 2008). Analysing traffic conditions and discovering risky traffic trends and patterns are essential basics in crash likelihood estimations studies and still require more attention and investigation. In this paper we will show, through data mining techniques, that there is a relationship between pre-crash traffic flow patterns and crash occurrence on motorways, compare them with normal traffic trends, and that this knowledge has the potentiality to improve the accuracy of existing crash likelihood estimation models, and opens the path for new development approaches. The data for the analysis was extracted from records collected between 2007 and 2009 on the Shibuya and Shinjuku lines of the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway in Japan. The dataset includes a total of 824 rear-end and sideswipe crashes that have been matched with crashes corresponding traffic flow data using an incident detection algorithm. Traffic trends (traffic speed time series) revealed that crashes can be clustered with regards to the dominant traffic patterns prior to the crash occurrence. K-Means clustering algorithm applied to determine dominant pre-crash traffic patterns. In the first phase of this research, traffic regimes identified by analysing crashes and normal traffic situations using half an hour speed in upstream locations of crashes. Then, the second phase investigated the different combination of speed risk indicators to distinguish crashes from normal traffic situations more precisely. Five major trends have been found in the first phase of this paper for both high risk and normal conditions. The study discovered traffic regimes had differences in the speed trends. Moreover, the second phase explains that spatiotemporal difference of speed is a better risk indicator among different combinations of speed related risk indicators. Based on these findings, crash likelihood estimation models can be fine-tuned to increase accuracy of estimations and minimize false alarms.

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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/64604/

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/64604/4/64604%28NEW_VERSION%29.pdf

Hamzehei, Asso, Chung, Edward, & Miska, Marc (2014) Traffic safety risks trends and patterns analysis on motorways. In The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 93rd Annual Meeting, 12-16 January 2014, Washington, D.C.

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Fonte

School of Civil Engineering & Built Environment; Faculty of Science and Technology; Smart Transport Research Centre

Palavras-Chave #080109 Pattern Recognition and Data Mining #090507 Transport Engineering #Traffic Flow Regimes #Traffic Flow Trends #Motorway Crashes #Risky and Normal Traffic #Clustering
Tipo

Conference Paper