1. Investigation of work zone crash casualty patterns using association rules.
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Weng, Jinxian, Zhu, Jia-Zheng, Yan, Xuedong, and Liu, Zhiyuan
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ROAD work zones , *ASSOCIATION rule mining , *TRAFFIC safety , *TRAFFIC engineering , *DRUNK driving - Abstract
Investigation of the casualty crash characteristics and contributory factors is one of the high-priority issues in traffic safety analysis. In this paper, we propose a method based on association rules to analyze the characteristics and contributory factors of work zone crash casualties. A case study is conducted using the Michigan M-94/I-94/I-94BL/I-94BR work zone crash data from 2004 to 2008. The obtained association rules are divided into two parts including rules with high-lift, and rules with high-support for the further analysis. The results show that almost all the high-lift rules contain either environmental or occupant characteristics. The majority of association rules are centered on specific characteristics, such as drinking driving, the highway with more than 4 lanes, speed-limit over 40 mph and not use of traffic control devices. It should be pointed out that some stronger associated rules were found in the high-support part. With the network visualization, the association rule method can provide more understandable results for investigating the patterns of work zone crash casualties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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