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 …

Analysis of mobile phone use engagement during naturalistic driving through explainable imbalanced machine learning

A Ziakopoulos, A Kontaxi, G Yannis - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2023 - Elsevier
While driver distraction remains an issue in modernized societies, technological
advancements in data collection, storage and analysis provide the means for deeper …

Applying an interpretable machine learning framework to study mobility inequity in the recovery phase of COVID-19 pandemic

Z Li, Z Wei, Y Zhang, X Kong, C Ma - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis that also fuels the pervasive social inequity
in the United States. Existing studies have extensively analyzed the inequity issues on …

Investigating the impact of environmental and temporal features on mobile phone distracted driving behavior using phone use data

Y Peng, G Song, M Guo, L Wu, L Yu - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2023 - Elsevier
Mobile phone distracted driving (MPDD) is one of the most significant and common factors in
distraction-affected crashes. In previous studies, MPDD has been described as a self …

Modelling the response times of mobile phone distracted young drivers: A hybrid approach of decision tree and random parameters duration model

Y Ali, MM Haque - Analytic methods in accident research, 2023 - Elsevier
Research has shown the detrimental effects of using mobile phones whilst driving, which are
more prominent and concerning for young drivers, who are often less experienced and …

Temporal analysis of cellphone-use-involved crash injury severities: calling for preventing cellphone-use-involved distracted driving

P Wu, L Song, X Meng - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2022 - Elsevier
With the popularity of smartphones and the increasing dependence on cellphones,
cellphone-use-involved distracted driving has become a global traffic safety concern …

Short duration crash prediction for rural two-lane roadways: applying explainable artificial intelligence

Z Wei, S Das, Y Zhang - Transportation research record, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Conventional traffic crash analysis methods often use highly aggregated data, making it
difficult to understand the effects of time-varying factors on crash occurrence. In this study …

Bridge deck deterioration: Reasons and patterns

X Kong, Z Li, Y Zhang, S Das - Transportation research …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The deck condition of bridges is one of the most important factors impacting the connectivity
and efficiency of transportation networks. Bridges with quickly deteriorating deck conditions …

Scalable inverse uncertainty quantification by hierarchical bayesian modeling and variational inference

C Wang, X Wu, Z Xie, T Kozlowski - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Inverse Uncertainty Quantification (IUQ) has gained increasing attention in the field of
nuclear engineering, especially nuclear thermal-hydraulics (TH), where it serves as an …

Exploring factors associated with crossing assertiveness of pedestrians at unsignalized intersections

Z Li, X Kong, Y Zhang - Transportation research record, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A pedestrian's assertiveness when crossing an intersection measures his or her willingness
to cross under given conditions, and this level of assertiveness affects pedestrian crossing …