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ACCIDENT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION
卷 179, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2022.106880
关键词
Connected vehicle; Crash frequency prediction; Geographical random forest; Variable importance
This study investigates a new Artificial Intelligence technique called Geographical Random Forest (GRF) to accurately predict rear-end crash frequency at intersections. The results show that the proposed GRF outperforms Global Random Forest in terms of test error and fit, and identifies key indicators of rear-end crashes.
Accurate crash frequency prediction is critical for proactive safety management. The emerging connected ve-hicles technology provides us with a wealth of vehicular motion data, which enables a better connection between crash frequency and driving behaviors. However, appropriately dealing with the spatial dependence of crash frequency and multitudinous driving features has been a difficult but critical challenge in the prediction process. To this end, this study aims to investigate a new Artificial Intelligence technique called Geographical Random Forest (GRF) that can address spatial heterogeneity and retain all potential predictors. By harnessing more than 2.2 billion high-resolution connected vehicle Basic Safety Message (BSM) observations from the Safety Pilot Model Deployment in Ann Arbor, MI, 30 indicators of driving volatility are extracted, including speed, longi-tudinal and lateral acceleration, and yaw rate. The developed GRF was implemented to predict rear-end crash frequency at intersections. The results show that: 1) rear-end crashes are more likely to happen at intersections connecting minor roads compared to major roads; 2) a higher number of hard acceleration and deceleration events beyond two standard deviations in the longitudinal direction is a leading indicator of rear-end crashes; 3) the optimal GRF significantly outperforms Global Random Forest, with a 9% lower test error and a substantially better fit; and 4) geographical visualization of variable importance highlights the presence of spatial non-stationarity. The proposed framework can proactively identify at-risk intersections and alert drivers when leading indicators of driving volatility tend to worsen.
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