Title

Predicting freeway crashes from loop detector data by matched case-control logistic regression

Authors

Authors

M. Abdel-Aty; N. Uddin; A. Pande; M. F. Abdalla; L. Hsia;Trb

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Keywords

ACCIDENTS; Engineering, Civil; Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications; Statistics & Probability; Transportation Science & Technology

Abstract

Growing concern over traffic safety has led to research into prediction of freeway crashes in an advanced traffic management and information systems environment. A crash likelihood prediction model was developed by using real-time traffic flow variables (measured through a series of underground sensors) potentially associated with crash occurrence. The issues related to real-time application, including range of stations and time slice duration to be examined, were also addressed. The methodology used, matched case-control logistic regression, was adopted from epidemiological studies in which every crash is a case and corresponding noncrashes act as controls. The 5-min average occupancy observed at the upstream station during the 5 to 10 min before the crash, along with the 5-min coefficient of variation in speed at the downstream station during the same time, was found to affect crash occurrence most significantly and hence was used to calculate the corresponding log-odds ratio. A threshold value for this ratio may then be set to determine whether the location must be flagged as a potential crash location. It was shown that by using 1.0 as the threshold for the log-odds ratio, more than 69% crash identification was achieved.

Journal Title

Statistical Methods and Safety Data Analysis and Evaluation

Issue/Number

1897

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

88

Last Page

95

WOS Identifier

WOS:000228263900012

ISSN

0361-1981; 0-309-09495-X

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