Road safety in low-income countries: state of knowledge and future directions

S Heydari, A Hickford, R McIlroy, J Turner, AM Bachani - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Road safety in low-income countries (LICs) remains a major concern. Given the expected
increase in traffic exposure due to the relatively rapid motorisation of transport in LICs, it is …

Systematic review of the literature on big data in the transportation domain: Concepts and applications

A Neilson, B Daniel, S Tjandra - Big Data Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Research in Big Data and analytics offers tremendous opportunities to utilize
evidence in making decisions in many application domains. To what extent can the …

Analyzing the leading causes of traffic fatalities using XGBoost and grid-based analysis: a city management perspective

J Ma, Y Ding, JCP Cheng, Y Tan, VJL Gan… - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic accidents have been one of the most important global public problems. It has caused
a severe loss of human lives and property every year. Studying the influential factors of …

A machine learning based personalized system for driving state recognition

D Yi, J Su, C Liu, M Quddus, WH Chen - Transportation Research Part C …, 2019 - Elsevier
Reliable driving state recognition (eg normal, drowsy, and aggressive) plays a significant
role in improving road safety, driving experience and fuel efficiency. It lays the foundation for …

Investigating secondary pedestrian-vehicle interactions at non-signalized intersections using vision-based trajectory data

T Fu, W Hu, L Miranda-Moreno, N Saunier - Transportation research part C …, 2019 - Elsevier
Vision-based trajectory data provides great details for investigating microscopic behavior
and road safety at the level of interactions. Most studies investigating pedestrian-vehicle …

Mining automatically extracted vehicle trajectory data for proactive safety analytics

K Xie, K Ozbay, H Yang, C Li - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2019 - Elsevier
Proactive safety management has gained increasing attention for its potential to mitigate
crash risk. This study aims to leverage massive vehicle trajectory data for proactive safety …

Collision prediction in roundabouts: a comparative study of extreme value theory approaches

F Orsini, G Gecchele, M Gastaldi… - … A: transport science, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This work contributes to study the application of extreme value theory (EVT) in road safety
analysis, estimating the risk of being involved in an entering–circulating collision in single …

Expressway crash risk prediction using back propagation neural network: A brief investigation on safety resilience

J Wang, Y Kong, T Fu - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2019 - Elsevier
This study presents the work in predicting crash risk on expressways with consideration of
both the impact of safety critical events and traffic conditions. The traffic resilience theory is …

Observing the observation of (vulnerable) road user behaviour and traffic safety: A scoping review

W van Haperen, MS Riaz, S Daniels, N Saunier… - Accident Analysis & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Behavioural observation studies in road safety research collect naturalistic data of road
users that are not informed (beforehand) of their participation in a research project. It …

A surrogate video-based safety methodology for diagnosis and evaluation of low-cost pedestrian-safety countermeasures: The case of Cochabamba, Bolivia

L Scholl, M Elagaty, B Ledezma-Navarro, E Zamora… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Due to a lack of reliable data collection systems, traffic fatalities and injuries are often under-
reported in developing countries. Recent developments in surrogate road safety methods …