Investigation of a surrogate measure-based safety index for predicting injury crashes at signalized intersections.

Journal: Traffic injury prevention
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The paper develops a machine learning-based safety index for classifying traffic conflicts that can be used to estimate the frequency of signalized intersection crashes, with a focus on the more severe ones that result in fatal and severe injury. The number of conflicts in different severity levels categorized by the safety index is used as an explanatory variable for developing statistical models for pro-actively estimating crashes.

Authors

  • Maryam Hasanpour
    Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada.
  • Bhagwant Persaud
    Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada.
  • Robert Mansell
    Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada.
  • Craig Milligan
    Miovision, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.