Prioritizing rear-end crash explanatory factors for injury severity level using deep learning and global sensitivity analysis

M Owais, A Alshehri, J Gyani, MH Aljarbou… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Traffic accidents are usually unique events with unpredictable geographical and temporal
dimensions; thus, accident injury severity level (INJ-SL) analysis presents formidable …

Factors affecting injury severity at pedestrian crossing locations with Rectangular RAPID Flashing Beacons (RRFB) using XGBoost and random parameters discrete …

A Goswamy, M Abdel-Aty, Z Islam - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons (RRFB) on
crash severity. The study used and compared XGBoost and Random Parameters Discrete …

Analysis of accident injury-severity outcomes: The zero-inflated hierarchical ordered probit model with correlated disturbances

G Fountas, PC Anastasopoulos - Analytic methods in accident research, 2018 - Elsevier
In accident injury-severity analysis, an inherent limitation of the traditional ordered probit
approach arises from the a priori consideration of a homogeneous source for the accidents …

Analysis of stationary and dynamic factors affecting highway accident occurrence: A dynamic correlated grouped random parameters binary logit approach

G Fountas, MT Sarwar, PC Anastasopoulos… - Accident Analysis & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Traditional accident analysis typically explores non-time-varying (stationary) factors that
affect accident occurrence on roadway segments. However, the impact of time-varying …

A new econometric approach for modeling several count variables: a case study of crash frequency analysis by crash type and severity

T Bhowmik, S Yasmin, N Eluru - Transportation research part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is limited adoption of research modeling crash severity frequency considering
different crash types due to the challenge associated with analyzing large number of …

Variance-based global sensitivity analysis for rear-end crash investigation using deep learning

GS Moussa, M Owais, E Dabbour - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2022 - Elsevier
Traffic accidents are rare events with inconsistent spatial and temporal dimensions; thus,
accident injury severity (INJ-S) analysis faces a significant challenge in its classification and …

A Bayesian spatial Poisson-lognormal model to examine pedestrian crash severity at signalized intersections

S Munira, IN Sener, B Dai - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
Reducing nonmotorized crashes requires a profound understanding of the causes and
consequences of the crashes at the facility level. Generally, existing literature on bicyclists …

Addressing endogeneity in modeling speed enforcement, crash risk and crash severity simultaneously

S Yasmin, N Eluru, MM Haque - Analytic methods in accident research, 2022 - Elsevier
Speeding is one of the major significant causes of high crash risk and the associated injury
severity outcomes. To combat such significant safety concerns, a speed limit enforcement …

Analysis of crash proportion by vehicle type at traffic analysis zone level: A mixed fractional split multinomial logit modeling approach with spatial effects

J Lee, S Yasmin, N Eluru, M Abdel-Aty, Q Cai - Accident Analysis & …, 2018 - Elsevier
In traffic safety literature, crash frequency variables are analyzed using univariate count
models or multivariate count models. In this study, we propose an alternative approach to …

Exploring the impact of truck traffic on road segment-based severe crash proportion using extensive weigh-in-motion data

C Xu, K Ozbay, H Liu, K Xie, D Yang - Safety science, 2023 - Elsevier
Fixed proportions by severity assumption in Highway Safety Manual could be violated since
the proportions of severe crashes are likely to be affected by truck traffic characteristics …