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Traffic accidents pose a significant threat to public safety, resulting in numerous fatalities, injuries, and a substantial economic burden each year. The development of predictive models capable of real-time forecasting of post-accident…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Pouyan Sajadi , Mahya Qorbani , Sobhan Moosavi , Erfan Hassannayebi

Transportation facilities are becoming more developed as society develops, and people's travel demand is increasing, but so are the traffic safety issues that arise as a result. And car accidents are a major issue all over the world. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Sri Siddhartha Reddy Gudemupati , Yen Ling Chao , Lakshmi Praneetha Kotikalapudi , Ebrima Ceesay

The paper introduces a new dataset to assess the performance of machine learning algorithms in the prediction of the seriousness of injury in a traffic accident. The dataset is created by aggregating publicly available datasets from the UK…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Paschalis Lagias , George D. Magoulas , Ylli Prifti , Alessandro Provetti

This paper addresses the problem of predicting hazards that drivers may encounter while driving a car. We formulate it as a task of anticipating impending accidents using a single input image captured by car dashcams. Unlike existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Korawat Charoenpitaks , Van-Quang Nguyen , Masanori Suganuma , Masahiro Takahashi , Ryoma Niihara , Takayuki Okatani

Traffic accident anticipation aims to predict accidents from dashcam videos as early as possible, which is critical to safety-guaranteed self-driving systems. With cluttered traffic scenes and limited visual cues, it is of great challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Wentao Bao , Qi Yu , Yu Kong

This study investigates the predictive capacity of environmental, temporal, and spatial factors on traffic accident severity in the United States. Using a dataset of 500,000 U.S. traffic accidents spanning 2016-2023, we trained an XGBoost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yann Bellec , Rohan Kaman , Siwen Cui , Aarav Agrawal , Calvin Chen

This article presents a model for traffic incident prediction. Specifically, we address the fundamental problem of data scarcity in road traffic accident prediction by training our model on emergency braking events instead of accidents.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Alexander Reichenbach , J. -Emeterio Navarro-B

Traffic accident data are usually noisy, contain missing values, and heterogeneous. How to select the most important variables to improve real-time traffic accident risk prediction has become a concern of many recent studies. This paper…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-01 Lei Lin , Qian Wang , Adel W. Sadek

Reducing traffic accidents is a crucial global public safety concern. Accident prediction is key to improving traffic safety, enabling proactive measures to be taken before a crash occurs, and informing safety policies, regulations, and…

This study extends previous hotspot and Chi-Square analysis by Sawyer \cite{sawyer2025hotspot} by integrating advanced statistical analysis, machine learning, and spatial modeling techniques to analyze five years (2019--2023) of traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jennifer Sawyer , Julian Allagan

To safely and efficiently navigate through complex traffic scenarios, autonomous vehicles need to have the ability to predict the future motion of surrounding vehicles. Multiple interacting agents, the multi-modal nature of driver behavior,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Nachiket Deo , Mohan M. Trivedi

This study examines the feasibility of applying large language models (LLMs) for forecasting the impact of traffic incidents on the traffic flow. The use of LLMs for this task has several advantages over existing machine learning-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 George Jagadeesh , Srikrishna Iyer , Michal Polanowski , Kai Xin Thia

To ensure the security of the general mass, crime prevention is one of the most higher priorities for any government. An accurate crime prediction model can help the government, law enforcement to prevent violence, detect the criminals in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Md. Aminur Rab Ratul

Each year, around 6 million car accidents occur in the U.S. on average. Road safety features (e.g., concrete barriers, metal crash barriers, rumble strips) play an important role in preventing or mitigating vehicle crashes. Accurate maps of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Arpan Sainju , Zhe Jiang

Recent research has found that navigation systems usually assume that all roads are equally safe, directing drivers to dangerous routes, which led to catastrophic consequences. To address this problem, this paper aims to begin the process…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Runsheng Xu , Shibo Zhang , Yue Zhao , Peixi Xiong , Allen Yilun Lin , Brent Hecht , Jiaqi Ma

The Highway Performance Monitoring System, managed by the Federal Highway Administration, provides data on average annual daily traffic volume across roadways in the United States, but it has limited representation of medium- and heavy-duty…

Applications · Statistics 2026-02-18 Brittany Antonczak , Meg Fay , Aviral Chawla , Gregory Rowangould

As autonomous driving systems increasingly become part of daily transportation, the ability to accurately anticipate and mitigate potential traffic accidents is paramount. Traditional accident anticipation models primarily utilizing dashcam…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Haicheng Liao , Yongkang Li , Chengyue Wang , Yanchen Guan , KaHou Tam , Chunlin Tian , Li Li , Chengzhong Xu , Zhenning Li

Real-time safety systems are crucial components of intelligent vehicles. This paper introduces a prediction-based collision risk assessment approach on highways. Given a point mass vehicle dynamics system, a stochastic forward reachable set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Xinwei Wang , Zirui Li , Javier Alonso-Mora , Meng Wang

Principled decision making in emergency response management necessitates the use of statistical models that predict the spatial-temporal likelihood of incident occurrence. These statistical models are then used for proactive stationing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Sayyed Mohsen Vazirizade , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Geoffrey Pettet , Said El Said , Hiba Baroud , Abhishek Dubey

Traffic congestion at intersections is a significant issue in urban areas, leading to increased commute times, safety hazards, and operational inefficiencies. This study aims to develop a predictive model for congestion at intersections in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tara Kelly , Jessica Gupta