Modeling traffic conflicts for use in road safety analysis: A review of analytic methods and future directions

L Zheng, T Sayed, F Mannering - Analytic methods in accident research, 2021 - Elsevier
Limitations of crash data and crash-based methods have given rise to the study of alternate
measures of safety that are not predicated on the occurrence of a crash such as traffic …

Criticality metrics for automated driving: A review and suitability analysis of the state of the art

L Westhofen, C Neurohr, T Koopmann, M Butz… - … Methods in Engineering, 2023 - Springer
The large-scale deployment of automated vehicles on public roads has the potential to
vastly change the transportation modalities of today's society. Although this pursuit has been …

A feature learning approach based on XGBoost for driving assessment and risk prediction

X Shi, YD Wong, MZF Li, C Palanisamy… - Accident Analysis & …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study designs a framework of feature extraction and selection, to assess vehicle driving
and predict risk levels. The framework integrates learning-based feature selection …

Trajectory data reconstruction and simulation-based validation against macroscopic traffic patterns

M Montanino, V Punzo - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper shows that the behavior of driver models, either individually or entangled in
stochastic traffic simulation, is affected by the accuracy of empirical vehicle trajectories. To …

Identifying if VISSIM simulation model and SSAM provide reasonable estimates for field measured traffic conflicts at signalized intersections

F Huang, P Liu, H Yu, W Wang - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2013 - Elsevier
The primary objective of this study was to identify if the VISSIM simulation model and the
Surrogate Safety Assessment Model (SSAM) approach provided reasonable estimates for …

Traffic conflict models to evaluate the safety of signalized intersections at the cycle level

M Essa, T Sayed - Transportation research part C: emerging technologies, 2018 - Elsevier
The safety of signalized intersections has often been evaluated at an aggregate level
relating collisions to annual traffic volume and the geometric characteristics of the …

A multivariate method for evaluating safety from conflict extremes in real time

C Fu, T Sayed - Analytic methods in accident research, 2022 - Elsevier
Several studies have advocated the use of extreme value theory (EVT) traffic conflict models
for real-time crash risk prediction using real-time safety indices such as the risk of crash (RC) …

Validating the bivariate extreme value modeling approach for road safety estimation with different traffic conflict indicators

L Zheng, T Sayed, M Essa - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Bivariate extreme value models are developed for several conflict indicator
combinations.•Six combinations of TTC, MTTC, PET, and DRAC are considered.•Validation …

Key feature selection and risk prediction for lane-changing behaviors based on vehicles' trajectory data

T Chen, X Shi, YD Wong - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2019 - Elsevier
Risky lane-changing (LC) behavior of vehicles on the road has negative effects on traffic
safety. This study presents a research framework for key feature selection and risk prediction …

A survey on data-driven scenario generation for automated vehicle testing

J Cai, W Deng, H Guang, Y Wang, J Li, J Ding - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Automated driving is a promising tool for reducing traffic accidents. While some companies
claim that many cutting-edge automated driving functions have been developed, how to …