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Long-Term-Based Road Blackspot Screening Procedures by Machine Learning Algorithms

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  • Nicholas Fiorentini

    (Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering (DICI), Engineering School of the University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, 56126 Pisa, Italy)

  • Massimo Losa

    (Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering (DICI), Engineering School of the University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, 56126 Pisa, Italy)

Abstract

Screening procedures in road blackspot detection are essential tools for road authorities for quickly gathering insights on the safety level of each road site they manage. This paper suggests a road blackspot screening procedure for two-lane rural roads, relying on five different machine learning algorithms (MLAs) and real long-term traffic data. The network analyzed is the one managed by the Tuscany Region Road Administration, mainly composed of two-lane rural roads. An amount of 995 road sites, where at least one accident occurred in 2012–2016, have been labeled as “Accident Case”. Accordingly, an equal number of sites where no accident occurred in the same period, have been randomly selected and labeled as “Non-Accident Case”. Five different MLAs, namely Logistic Regression, Classification and Regression Tree, Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbor, and Naïve Bayes, have been trained and validated. The output response of the MLAs, i.e., crash occurrence susceptibility, is a binary categorical variable. Therefore, such algorithms aim to classify a road site as likely safe (“Accident Case”) or potentially susceptible to an accident occurrence (“Non-Accident Case”) over five years. Finally, algorithms have been compared by a set of performance metrics, including precision, recall, F 1 -score, overall accuracy, confusion matrix, and the Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic. Outcomes show that the Random Forest outperforms the other MLAs with an overall accuracy of 73.53%. Furthermore, all the MLAs do not show overfitting issues. Road authorities could consider MLAs to draw up a priority list of on-site inspections and maintenance interventions.

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  • Nicholas Fiorentini & Massimo Losa, 2020. "Long-Term-Based Road Blackspot Screening Procedures by Machine Learning Algorithms," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(15), pages 1-23, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:15:p:5972-:d:389167
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    1. Xiao, Jianli, 2019. "SVM and KNN ensemble learning for traffic incident detection," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 517(C), pages 29-35.
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