HighlightsA BSVC model was developed to account for the crash spatial heterogeneity.Ignoring spatially structured heterogeneity may produce biased parameter estimates.Assuming regression slopes as spatially clustered only may induce over smoothness.

    AbstractThis study was performed to investigate the spatially varying relationships between crash frequency and related risk factors. A Bayesian spatially varying coefficients model was elaborately introduced as a methodological alternative to simultaneously account for the unstructured and spatially structured heterogeneity of the regression coefficients in predicting crash frequencies. The proposed method was appealing in that the parameters were modeled via a conditional autoregressive prior distribution, which involved a single set of random effects and a spatial correlation parameter with extreme values corresponding to pure unstructured or pure spatially correlated random effects.A case study using a three-year crash dataset from the Hillsborough County, Florida, was conducted to illustrate the proposed model. Empirical analysis confirmed the presence of both unstructured and spatially correlated variations in the effects of contributory factors on severe crash occurrences. The findings also suggested that ignoring spatially structured heterogeneity may result in biased parameter estimates and incorrect inferences, while assuming the regression coefficients to be spatially clustered only is probably subject to the issue of over-smoothness.


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    Title :

    Revisiting crash spatial heterogeneity: A Bayesian spatially varying coefficients approach


    Contributors:
    Xu, Pengpeng (author) / Huang, Helai (author) / Dong, Ni (author) / Wong, S.C. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2016-10-11


    Size :

    8 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English