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  • Traffic Engineering
  • Transportation Safety
  • Risk Assessment

Background:

  • Traditional surrogate measures for crash risk assessment have limitations in accurately reflecting freeway traffic dynamics.
  • Understanding and quantifying crash risk is crucial for implementing effective traffic safety interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel surrogate measure, the Aggregated Crash Index (ACI), for estimating freeway crash risk.
  • To evaluate the performance of ACI against established surrogate measures in representing rear-end crash risks.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a probabilistic causal model representing a following vehicle's response to a leading vehicle's disturbance.
  • Constructed a decision tree to categorize eight potential conflict types.
  • Defined and estimated the Aggregated Crash Index (ACI) based on the accommodability of traffic state to disturbances.

Main Results:

  • The proposed Aggregated Crash Index (ACI) effectively measures crash risk by reflecting traffic state accommodability.
  • ACI demonstrated superior performance in representing rear-end crash risks compared to Time to Collision, Proportion of Stopping Distance, and Crash Potential Index.
  • The study applied ACI to a real-world freeway section on the Pacific Motorway, Australia.

Conclusions:

  • The Aggregated Crash Index (ACI) offers a more accurate and comprehensive approach to quantifying freeway crash risk.
  • This novel measure provides valuable insights for traffic safety analysis and the development of proactive safety strategies.
  • Further applications of ACI can enhance the understanding and mitigation of traffic-related safety issues.