Traffic incidents occur frequently on urban roadways and cause incident-induced congestion. Predicting incident duration is a key step in managing these events. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models can be estimated to relate the mean of incident duration data with its correlates. Because of the presence of larger incidents, duration distributions are often right-skewed; that is, the OLS model underpredicts the durations of larger incidents. Therefore, this study applies a modeling technique known as quantile regression to predict more accurately the skewed distribution of incident durations. Quantile regression estimates the relationships between correlates and a chosen percentile—for example, the 75th or 95th percentile—while the OLS regression is based on the mean of incident duration. With the use of incident data related to more than 85,000 (2013 to 2015) incidents for highways in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, quantile regression results indicate that the magnitudes of parameters and predictions can be quite different compared with OLS regression. In addition to predicting durations of larger incidents more accurately, quantile regressions can estimate the probability of an incident lasting for a specific duration; for example, incidents involving congestion and delay have an approximately 25% chance of lasting more than 100.8 min, while incidents excluding congestion and delay are estimated to have a 25% chance of lasting more than 43.3 min. Such information is helpful in accurately predicting durations and developing potential applications for using quantile regressions for better traffic incident management.


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    Title :

    Modeling Traffic Incident Duration Using Quantile Regression


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:
    Khattak, Asad J. (author) / Liu, Jun (author) / Wali, Behram (author) / Li, Xiaobing (author) / Ng, ManWo (author)


    Publication date :

    2016-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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