题名: | Predicting Highway–Rail Grade Crossing Collision Risk by Neural Network Systems |
正文语种: | 英文 |
作者: | Zijian Zheng1; Pan Lu, Ph.D.2; Danguang Pan, Ph.D.3 |
作者单位: | 1Research Assistant, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, North Dakota State Univ., NDSU Dept. 2880, P.O. Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108-6050. 2Associate Professor, Dept. of Transportation and Logistics, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, North Dakota State Univ., NDSU Dept. 2880, P.O. Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108-6050 (corresponding author). 3Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing, No. 30, Xueyuan Rd., Haidian District, Beijing 100083, PR China. |
关键词: | different;characteristics;relationship;application;connection;vari;predict;network;principal;aria |
摘要: | In this paper, train-vehicle crash risk at highway–rail grade crossings (HRGCs) is analyzed with a neural network (NN) model to return meaningful rankings of crash-contributory-variable importance based on different criteria, but also to produce dependent nonlinear contributor-crash curves with all other contributors considered for a specific contributor variable. Historical crash data for North Dakota public HRGCs from 1996 to 2014 were used for the study. Several principal findings were observed: (1) 22 input variables describing traffic characteristics and crossing characteristics are related to crashes at public HRGCs; (2) a mean-square error–based NN model and a connection weights–based NN model represent two relative contributory-variable importance lists for different application purposes; (3) the effect of different variables on crash likelihood is different when all other contributors are set at different levels, and the relationship between contributors and crash likelihood is dynamic nonlinear; and (4) in predictive and explanatory power, the neural network model outperforms the decision tree approach for the considered case study. |
出版年: | 2019 |
期刊名称: | Journal of Transportation Engineering |
卷: | 145 |
期: | 8 |
页码: | 1-8 |