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Exploring key factors for long-term vessel incident risk prediction

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  • Chen, Tianyi
  • Wang, Hua
  • Cai, Yutong
  • Liang, Maohan
  • Meng, Qiang

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Factor analysis acts a pivotal role in enhancing maritime safety. Most previous studies conduct factor analysis within the framework of incident-related label prediction, where the developed models can be categorized into short-term and long-term prediction models. The long-term models offer a more strategic approach, enabling more proactive risk management, compared to the short-term ones. Nevertheless, few studies have devoted to rigorously identifying the key factors for the long-term prediction and undertaking comprehensive factor analysis. Hence, this study aims to delve into the key factors for predicting the incident risk levels in the subsequent year given a specific datestamp. The majority of candidate factors potentially contributing to the incident risk are collected from vessels’ historical safety performance data spanning up to five years. An improved embedded feature selection method, which integrates Random Forest classifier with a feature filtering process, is proposed to identify key risk-contributing factors from the candidate pool. A dataset with information of 131,652 vessels collected from 2015 to 2023 is utilized for case study. The results demonstrate superior performances of the proposed method in incident prediction and factor interpretability. Comprehensive analysis is conducted upon the key factors, which could help maritime stakeholders formulate management strategies for incident prevention.

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  • Chen, Tianyi & Wang, Hua & Cai, Yutong & Liang, Maohan & Meng, Qiang, 2025. "Exploring key factors for long-term vessel incident risk prediction," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 253(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:253:y:2025:i:c:s0951832024006379
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2024.110565
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