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Big vehicular traffic Data mining: Towards accident and congestion prevention | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Big vehicular traffic Data mining: Towards accident and congestion prevention


Abstract:

In 2013, 32,719 people died in traffic crashes in the USA. Almost 90 people on average lose their lives every day and more than 250 are injured every hour. Road safety co...Show More

Abstract:

In 2013, 32,719 people died in traffic crashes in the USA. Almost 90 people on average lose their lives every day and more than 250 are injured every hour. Road safety could be enhanced by decreasing the traffic crashes. Traffic crashes cause traffic congestion as well, which has become unbearable, especially in mega-cities In addition, direct and indirect loss from traffic congestion only is over $124 billion. The existence of the Big Data of traffic crashes, as well as the availability of Big Data analytics tools can help us gain useful insights to enhance road safety and decrease traffic crashes. In this paper we use H2O and WEKA mining tools. We apply the feature selection techniques to find the most important predictors. In addition, we tackle the problem of class imbalance by employing bagging and using different quality measures. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of five classifiers to: (1) Conduct Big Data analysis on a big traffic accidents dataset of 146322 examples, find useful insight and patterns from the data, and forecast possible accidents in advance (2) Conduct Big Data analysis on a big vehicular casualties dataset of 194477 examples, to study the driver's behavior on the road. From the driver's behavior mining we can predict the driver age, sex as well as the accident severity. The aforementioned analyses, can be used by decision makers and practitioners to develop new traffic rules and policies, in order to prevent accidents, and increase roadway safety.
Date of Conference: 05-09 September 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 29 September 2016
ISBN Information:
Electronic ISSN: 2376-6506
Conference Location: Paphos, Cyprus

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