A Quasi-Poisson Approach on Modeling Accident Hazard Index for Urban Road Segments

Lu Ma, Xuedong Yan and Wenxin Qiao

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2014, vol. 2014, 1-8

Abstract:

In light of the recently emphasized studies on risk evaluation of crashes, accident counts under specific transportation facilities are adopted to reflect the chance of crash occurrence. The current study introduces more comprehensive measure with the supplement information of accidental harmfulness into the expression of accident risks which are also named Accident Hazard Index (AHI) in the following context. Before the statistical analysis, datasets from various sources are integrated under a GIS platform and the corresponding procedures are presented as an illustrated example for similar analysis. Then, a quasi-Poisson regression model is suggested for analyses and the results show that the model is appropriate for dealing with overdispersed count data and several key explanatory variables were found to have significant impact on the estimation of AHI. In addition, the effect of weight on different severity levels of accidents is examined and the selection of the weight is also discussed.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1155/2014/489052

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