Combined variable speed limit and lane change guidance for secondary crash prevention using distributed deep reinforcement learning

C Peng, C Xu - Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The primary objective of this paper is to develop a combined variable speed limit (VSL) and
lane change guidance (LCG) controller to prevent secondary crashes (SCs) and improve …

Methodological evolution and frontiers of identifying, modeling and preventing secondary crashes on highways

H Yang, Z Wang, K Xie, K Ozbay, M Imprialou - Accident Analysis & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Secondary crashes (SCs) or crashes that occur within the boundaries of the impact area of
prior, primary crashes are one of the incident types that frequently affect highway traffic …

A hybrid machine learning model for predicting real-time secondary crash likelihood

P Li, M Abdel-Aty - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2022 - Elsevier
Secondary crashes usually occur within the spatio-temporal impact ranges of primary
crashes, which could cause traffic disturbance and increase traffic safety problems …

Real-time estimation of secondary crash likelihood on freeways using high-resolution loop detector data

C Xu, P Liu, B Yang, W Wang - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study aimed to develop a secondary crash risk prediction model on freeways using real-
time traffic flow data. The crash and traffic data were collected on the I-880 freeway for five …

Incident management integration tool: dynamically predicting incident durations, secondary incident occurrence and incident delays

A Khattak, X Wang, H Zhang - IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 2012 - IET
Unreliability of travel times in urban areas is partly caused by traffic incidents. Traffic
operations can be further hindered by the occurrence of secondary incidents and associated …

Likelihood estimation of secondary crashes using Bayesian complementary log-log model

AE Kitali, P Alluri, T Sando, H Haule, E Kidando… - Accident Analysis & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Secondary crashes (SCs) occur within the spatial and temporal impact range of a primary
incident. They are non-recurring events and are major contributors to increased traffic delay …

Modeling when and where a secondary accident occurs

J Wang, B Liu, T Fu, S Liu, J Stipancic - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2019 - Elsevier
The occurrence of secondary accidents leads to traffic congestion and road safety issues.
Secondary accident prevention has become a major consideration in traffic incident …

Safety performance assessment of connected vehicles in mitigating the risk of secondary crashes: A driving simulator study

SM Gaweesh, A Khoda Bakhshi… - Transportation …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Traffic crashes can be divided into primary and secondary crashes. Secondary crashes
occur as a consequence of primary crashes within their spatiotemporal distances …

Modeling the effects of weather and traffic on the risk of secondary incidents

EI Vlahogianni, MG Karlaftis… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
To extract useful information on variables that are associated with secondary accident
likelihood, this article develops neural network models with enhanced explanatory power …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of connected vehicles on mitigating secondary crash risk

H Yang, Z Wang, K Xie - International journal of transportation science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Reducing the risk of secondary crashes is a key goal for effective traffic incident
management. However, only few countermeasures have been established in practices to …