Date of Award
2014
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Keywords
Boosted Regression Tree, Heteroscedastic Ordered Logit, Injury Severity, Non-parametric Model, Parametric Model, Single- and Two- vehicle Crash
Supervisor
Lee, Chris
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
This study applies both parametric model (Heteroscedastic Ordered Logit (HOL)) and non-parametric models (Random Forest, Classification and Regression Tree (CART), and Boosted Regression Tree (BRT)) to analysis of driver's injury severity in single-vehicle and two-vehicle crashes on highways. The HOL model not only estimates quantitative effects of significant explanatory variables, but also captures heteroscedasticity (i.e. variation in the unobserved effects among observations) of the variables such as head-on collision, abnormal conditions and female drivers. On the other hand, the BRT model effectively captures nonlinear effects of continuous variables including truck percentage, AADT, driver's age and vehicle age on severe injury. It was found that the BRT model predicted driver's injury severity more accurately than the HOL and CART models for both single-vehicle and two-vehicle crashes. Based on the model results, some remedial treatments are discussed to reduce driver's injury severity in crashes on highways. It is recommended that both HOL and BRT models are used for more accurate prediction of crash injury severity.
Recommended Citation
Li, Xuancheng, "Analysis of Injury Severity of Drivers Involved in Single-Vehicle andTwo-Vehicle Crashes on Ontario Highways" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5172.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5172