Highlights Multi-collinearity traffic violation data can serve as mid-term forecast predictors. The proposed CNN-GRU approach achieves high prediction accuracy. ALE plot is suitable to investigate traffic enforcement effect on traffic safety. Crash frequency and risk prediction shows model performance evaluation benefit.

    Abstract Traffic violations and improper driving are behaviors that primarily contribute to traffic crashes. This study aimed to develop effective approaches for predicting at-fault crash driver frequency using only city-level traffic enforcement predictors. A fusion deep learning approach combining a convolution neural network (CNN) and gated recurrent units (GRU) was developed to compare predictive performance with one econometric approach, two machine learning approaches, and another deep learning approach. The performance comparison was conducted for (1) at-fault crash driver frequency prediction tasks and (2) city-level crash risk prediction tasks. The proposed CNN-GRU achieved remarkable prediction accuracy and outperformed other approaches, while the other approaches also exhibited excellent performances. The results suggest that effective prediction approaches and appropriate traffic safety measures can be developed by considering both crash frequency and crash risk prediction tasks. In addition, the accumulated local effects (ALE) plot was utilized to investigate the contribution of each traffic enforcement activity on traffic safety in a scenario of multicollinearity among predictors. The ALE plot illustrated a complex nonlinear relationship between traffic enforcement predictors and the response variable. These findings can facilitate the development of traffic safety measures and serve as a good foundation for further investigations and utilization of traffic violation data.


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    Title :

    Mid-term prediction of at-fault crash driver frequency using fusion deep learning with city-level traffic violation data


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    Publication date :

    2020-11-25




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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