Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13020926
Keywords
older pedestrian traffic safety; pedestrian traffic crashes; machine learning; crashes severity; SHAP; XGBoost
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Older pedestrians are vulnerable on the streets and at risk of injury or death, making pedestrian safety critical. The XGBoost model and SHAP method can help analyze important factors in older pedestrian crashes and guide traffic management departments in protecting older pedestrians.
Older pedestrians are vulnerable on the streets and at significant risk of injury or death when involved in crashes. Pedestrians' safety is critical for roadway agencies to consider and improve, especially older pedestrians aged greater than 65 years old. To better protect the older pedestrian group, the factors that contribute to the older crashes need to be analyzed deeply. Traditional modeling approaches such as Logistic models for data analysis may lead to modeling distortions due to the independence assumptions. In this study, Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), is used to model the classification problem of three different levels of severity of older pedestrian traffic crashes from crash data in Colorado, US. Further, Shapley Additive explanations (SHAP) are implemented to interpret the XGBoost model result and analyze each feature's importance related to the levels of older pedestrian crashes. The interpretation results show that the driver characteristic, older pedestrian characteristics, and vehicle movement are the most important factors influencing the probability of the three different severity levels. Those results investigate each severity level's correlation factors, which can inform the department of traffic management and the department of road infrastructure to protect older pedestrians by controlling or managing some of those significant features.
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