Collision Type Categorization Based on Crash Causality and Severity Analysis

Chen Zhang, John N. Ivan, Thomas Jonsson

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to present an empirical inquiry into the categorization of collision types based on contributing factors and severity distribution. This study used Connecticut crash data from selected two-lane roads originated from police reports from 1996 to 2001. K-means cluster analysis methodology was conducted to categorize 10 collision types into 4 groups according to the similar pattern of their contributing factors. The severity distribution of the collision types was then considered to further divide up or combine the categories. The result of this analysis offers an analytical way at categorizing collisions to relate crash risk to causalities and driver’s misbehaviors. It also provides a crash categorization that can lead to more accurate and specific severity prediction.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 86th Annual meeting of TRB, CD-ROM
PublisherTransportation Research Board, Washington DC, USA
Number of pages21
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event86th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board - Washington DC, United States
Duration: 2007 Jan 212007 Jan 25

Conference

Conference86th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington DC
Period2007/01/212007/01/25

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Civil Engineering

Free keywords

  • modelling
  • severity
  • crash
  • accident
  • safety
  • road
  • modeling
  • traffic
  • causality

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