A multimodal data-driven approach for driving risk assessment

Congcong Bai, Sheng Jin, Jun Jing, Chengcheng Yang, Wenbin Yao, Donglei Rong and Jérémie Adjé Alagbé

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2024, vol. 189, issue C

Abstract: Real-time assessment and short-term warning of driving risks are critical for AI-assisted vehicles to significantly improve the safety and reliability of mobility. However, existing methods do not comprehensively consider these factors, making it difficult to achieve more accurate risk assessments. Aiming at this problem, this paper proposes a new driving risk assessment framework by integrating multimodal data. First, based on naturalistic driving experiments, we collected multimodal data encompassing human-vehicle–road factors. Then, using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model, we identified three risk levels based on driving behavior features: normal driving, longitudinal risky driving, and lateral risky driving. To better understand the spatiotemporal importance of multiple factors, a spatiotemporal dual-channel neural network based on a multi-layer attention mechanism (MLA-DCNN) is developed. This model has a spatiotemporal dual-channel structure, which can integrate “low-level” historical sequences and “high-level” extract statistical features of multiple features. In addition, it adopts three layers of attention mechanism, respectively used to capture the differences of features in temporal, spatial, and extracted-level dimensions. Results reveal that the LDA model is more effective than traditional clustering methods in uncovering latent patterns of driving risk. The proposed model achieved an impressive accuracy of 91.04%, demonstrating higher risk assessment capabilities than the other alternative models. In addition, the multilayer attention enhances the interpretability of the model and is able to capture the spatiotemporal importance of different factors across various road environments. This method can be applied to connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) using multimodal natural driving data collected by in-vehicle sensors. It enhances the risk warning capabilities of driving assistance systems, and the multidimensional importance analysis also supports decision-making for traffic management authorities.

Keywords: Driving risk assessment; Multimodal data-driven method; Multi-factor analysis; Attention mechanism; Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2024.103678

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