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Large-Scale Automated Analysis of Vehicle Interactions and Collisions

JournalTransportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
PublisherTransportation Research Board of the National Academies
ISSN0361-1981 (Print)
IssueVolume 2147 / 2010
Pages42-50
DOI10.3141/2147-06
Online DateFriday, October 01, 2010
Authors
Nicolas Saunier1, Tarek Sayed2, Karim Ismail2

1Department of Civil, Geological, and Mining Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079, succ. Centre-Ville Montreal, Quebec H3C 3A7, Canada
2Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada

Abstract

Road collisions are a worldwide pandemic that can be addressed through the improvement of existing tools for safety analysis. A refined probabilistic framework is presented for the analysis of road-user interactions. In particular, the identification of potential collision points is used to estimate collision probabilities, and their spatial distribution can be visualized. A probabilistic time to collision is introduced, and interactions are grouped into four categories: head-on, rear-end, side, and parallel. The framework is applied to a large data set of video recordings collected in Kentucky that contains more than 300 severe interactions and collisions. The results demonstrate the usefulness of the approach for studying road-user behavior and mechanisms that may lead to collisions.

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