A review of spatial approaches in road safety

A Ziakopoulos, G Yannis - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
Spatial analyses of crashes have been adopted in road safety for decades in order to
determine how crashes are affected by neighboring locations, how the influence of …

Quantifying and comparing the effects of key risk factors on various types of roadway segment crashes with LightGBM and SHAP

X Wen, Y Xie, L Wu, L Jiang - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding and quantifying the effects of risk factors on crash frequency is of great
importance for developing cost-effective safety countermeasures. In this paper, the effects of …

The application of XGBoost and SHAP to examining the factors in freight truck-related crashes: An exploratory analysis

C Yang, M Chen, Q Yuan - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to the burgeoning demand for freight movement, freight related road safety threats have
been growing substantially. In spite of some research on the factors influencing freight truck …

Analyzing freeway crash severity using a Bayesian spatial generalized ordered logit model with conditional autoregressive priors

Q Zeng, W Gu, X Zhang, H Wen, J Lee… - Accident Analysis & …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study develops a Bayesian spatial generalized ordered logit model with conditional
autoregressive priors to examine severity of freeway crashes. Our model can simultaneously …

Mapping pedestrian safety studies between 2010 and 2021: A scientometric analysis

W Ma, PK Alimo, L Wang, M Abdel-Aty - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2022 - Elsevier
Pedestrian deaths constitute 23% of road traffic deaths globally. Although several research
papers have contributed to pedestrian safety analysis, they did not provide a comprehensive …

A joint probability model for pedestrian crashes at macroscopic level: Roles of environment, traffic, and population characteristics

J Su, NN Sze, L Bai - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2021 - Elsevier
Road safety is a major public health issue, with road crashes accounting for one-fourth of all
documented injuries. In these crashes, pedestrians are more vulnerable to fatal and/or …

Forecasting international tourism demand: a local spatiotemporal model

X Jiao, G Li, JL Chen - Annals of Tourism Research, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigates whether tourism forecasting accuracy is improved by incorporating
spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity. One-to three-step-ahead forecasts of tourist …

Exploring key spatio-temporal features of crash risk hot spots on urban road network: A machine learning approach

P Wu, T Chen, YD Wong, X Meng, X Wang… - … research part A: policy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traffic safety is a critical factor that has always been considered in policy making for urban
transportation planning and management. Accurately predicting crash risk hot spots allows …

Multivariate space-time modeling of crash frequencies by injury severity levels

X Ma, S Chen, F Chen - Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Road traffic crashes threaten thousands of drivers every day and significant efforts have
been put forth to reduce the number and mitigate the impacts of traffic crashes. Although the …

Jointly modeling area-level crash rates by severity: a Bayesian multivariate random-parameters spatio-temporal Tobit regression

Q Zeng, Q Guo, SC Wong, H Wen… - … A: Transport Science, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates the inclusion of spatio-temporal correlation and interaction in a
multivariate random-parameters Tobit model and their influence on fitting areal crash rates …