Utilizing UAV video data for in-depth analysis of drivers' crash risk at interchange merging areas

X Gu, M Abdel-Aty, Q Xiang, Q Cai, J Yuan - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2019 - Elsevier
The interchange merging area suffers a high crash risk in the freeway system, which is
greatly related to the intense mandatory merging maneuvers. Ignoring such correlation may …

Safety performance evaluation of freeway merging areas under autonomous vehicles environment using a co-simulation platform

P Chen, H Ni, L Wang, G Yu, J Sun - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2024 - Elsevier
Merging areas serve as the potential bottlenecks for continuous traffic flow on freeways.
Traffic incidents in freeway merging areas are closely related to decision-making errors of …

Effectiveness of road safety interventions: An evidence and gap map

R Goel, G Tiwari, M Varghese, K Bhalla… - Campbell systematic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background Road Traffic injuries (RTI) are among the top ten leading causes of
death in the world resulting in 1.35 million deaths every year, about 93% of which occur in …

An accident prediction model for urban road networks

F Gianfranco, S Soddu, P Fadda - Journal of Transportation Safety …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
For several years now increasingly analytical prediction models have been developed that
are able to correlate accident frequency with infrastructure characteristics to support the …

A modified post encroachment time model of urban road merging area based on lane-change characteristics

W Qi, W Wang, B Shen, J Wu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an effective method, Traffic Conflict Technology (TCT) is widely applied to estimate the
safety level of some risky areas, especially for the merging areas in the urban roads. Most of …

Analysis of lane-changing conflict between cars and trucks at freeway merging sections using UAV video data

Y Lu, K Cheng, Y Zhang, X Chen… - Journal of Transportation …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The freeway on-ramp merging section is often identified as a crash-prone spot due to the
high frequency of traffic conflicts. Cars and trucks have different sizes and operation …

Does road environment aesthetics influence risky driving behavior of autonomous vehicles? An evaluation on road readiness using explainable machine learning and …

S Yao, B Yu, Y Chen, K Gao, S Bao… - Accident Analysis & …, 2025 - Elsevier
Aesthetics has always been an advanced requirement in road environment design, because
it can provide a pleasant driving experience and guide better driving behavior for human …

[HTML][HTML] An observational study of understanding the factors influencing merging behaviour in work zones

S Siriwardene, M Ashraf, AK Debnath - Transportation Research Part F …, 2025 - Elsevier
Merging due to lane closure in work zones is an everyday driving activity that is
characteristically different from merging in non-work zone sections. Despite many studies …

[HTML][HTML] Space-time analysis of accident frequency and the role of built environment in mitigation

A Soltani, MR Qadikolaei - Transport policy, 2024 - Elsevier
The focus of this paper is to analyze the trends and locations of accidents in the Greater
Melbourne Area (GMA) during a 15-year period (2006–2020). The places where accidents …

A Bayesian vector autoregression-based data analytics approach to enable irregularly-spaced mixed-frequency traffic collision data imputation with missing values

Z Li, H Yu, G Zhang, J Wang - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2019 - Elsevier
Traffic collision data are always collected in irregularly spaced and mixed frequency.
Conventional treatment on these kinds of data, for instance, aggregating the high-frequency …