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 …

Comparative study of machine learning classifiers for modelling road traffic accidents

T Bokaba, W Doorsamy, BS Paul - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are a major cause of injuries and fatalities worldwide. In recent
years, there has been a growing global interest in analysing RTAs, specifically concerned …

Prioritizing influential factors for freeway incident clearance time prediction using the gradient boosting decision trees method

X Ma, C Ding, S Luan, Y Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identifying and quantifying the influential factors on incident clearance time can benefit
incident management for accident causal analysis and prediction, and consequently …

Computational intelligence and optimization for transportation big data: challenges and opportunities

EI Vlahogianni - … and Applied Sciences Optimization: Dedicated to the …, 2015 - Springer
With the overwhelming amount of transportation data being gathered worldwide, Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) are faced with several modeling challenges. New modeling …

Combined connected vehicles and variable speed limit strategies to reduce rear-end crash risk under fog conditions

Y Wu, M Abdel-Aty, L Wang… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Fog is a weather condition that reduces visibility of the driving scene, while slow traffic may
be formed due to the bottleneck on freeways. This phenomenon may lead to higher rear-end …

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 …

From data to actions in intelligent transportation systems: A prescription of functional requirements for model actionability

I Laña, JJ Sanchez-Medina, EI Vlahogianni, J Del Ser - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Advances in Data Science permeate every field of Transportation Science and Engineering,
resulting in developments in the transportation sector that are data-driven. Nowadays …

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 …

Real-time prediction of secondary incident occurrences using vehicle probe data

H Park, A Haghani - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2016 - Elsevier
Effective incident management system requires quantifying non-recurring congestion and
detecting a secondary incident under the negative influence of a primary incident. Previously …

Real-time prediction and avoidance of secondary crashes under unexpected traffic congestion

H Park, A Haghani, S Samuel, MA Knodler - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract According to the Federal Highway Administration, nonrecurring congestion
contributes to nearly half of the overall congestion. Temporal disruptions impact the effective …