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CaseNotes: AccordingtoNationalHighwayTrafficSafety(NHTSA)over6milliontrafficaccidentsclaim morethan41,000liveseachyearinUS Trafficsafetyresearchershaveanspecialinterestincausesofaccidentandrelatedinjury severity Researchgoalisnotonlyreducingthenumberofaccidentsbutalsotheseverityofinjury Toaccomplishthereducingofseverityininjuryistoidentifythemostprofoundfactors thataffectit Understandingthecircumstancesunderwhichthedriversandpassengersaremorelikely tobeseverelyinjured(orkilled)inacaraccidentcanhelptoimprovetheoveralldriving safetysituation Factorsthatpotentiallyincreasetheriskofinjuryseverityare: o Demographic:age,gender o Behavioral:seatbeltusage,usageofdrugsoralcoholwhiledriving o Environmental:roadwayconditions,surfaceconditions,weather,lightconditions, directionoftheimpact,vehicleorientationinthecrash,occurrenceofarollover o Vehicletechnicalaspects:vehicle`sage,bodytype Exploratorydataminingstudytoidentifywhichfactorsbecameincreasinglymore important
usedalargedatasample:30,358policereportedaccidentrecordsobtainedfrom thegeneralestimatesofNHTSA o includedaccidentsgeographicallyrepresentativesampleofmultiplevehicle collisionaccidents,singlevehiclefixedobjectcollisionandsinglevehicle noncolision(rollover)crashes Manypreviousstudies o hadprimarilyusedregressiontypegeneralizedlinearmodels o functionrelationshipbetweeninjuryseverityandcrashedrelatedfactorsare assumedtobelinear ArtificialNeuralNetwork(ANN)areknowntobesuperiorincapturinghighlynonlinear complexrelationshipsbetweenthepredictorvariables(crashfactors)andthetarget variable(severityleveloftheinjuries),thereforetheydecidedtousedaseriesofANN modelstoestimatethesignificanceofthecrashfactoronthelevelofinjuryseverity sustainedbythedriver Frommethodologicalstandpoint,theyfollowedatwostepprocess o First:developaseriesofpredictionmodels(oneforeachseverityinjurylevel)to capturetheindepthrelationshipsbetweenthecrashrelatedfactorsanda specificlevelofinjuryseverity o Second:conductedasensitivityanalysisonthetrainedneuralmodeltoidentify theprioritizedimportanceofcrashrelatedfactorsastheyrelatetodifferentinjury severitylevels Intheformulationofthestudythefiveclasspredictionproblemwasdecomposedintoa numberofbinaryclassificationmodelsinordertoobtaingranularityofinformation neededtoidentifythetruecrashrelatedfactorsanddifferentlevelsofinjuryseverity Resultsrevealed: o Considerabledifferencesamongthemodelsbuiltfordifferentinjuryseverity levels.Thisimpliesthatthemostinfluentialfactorsinpredictionmodelshighly dependonthelevelofinjuryseverity o Theseatbeltusagewasthemostimportantdeterminantvariableforpredicting higherlevelsofinjuryseveritybutitwasoneoftheleastsignificantpredictorsfor lowerlevelsofinjuryseverity o DriversGenderwasamongthesignificantpredictorsforlowerlevelsofinjury severitybutitwasnotamongthesignificantfactorsforhigherlevelsofinjury severity o Agebecomesanincreasinglymoresignificantfactorasthelevelofinjuryseverity increases o