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Citation

Wang J, Kong Y, Fu T, Stipancic J. PLoS One 2017; 12(9): e0184564.

Affiliation

Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Public Library of Science)

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0184564

PMID

28886141

Abstract

This paper presents the use of the Aimsun microsimulation program to simulate vehicle violating behaviors and observe their impact on road traffic crash risk. Plugins for violations of speeding, slow driving, and abrupt stopping were developed using Aimsun's API and SDK module. A safety analysis plugin for investigating probability of rear-end collisions was developed, and a method for analyzing collision risk is proposed. A Fuzzy C-mean Clustering algorithm was developed to identify high risk states in different road segments over time.

RESULTS of a simulation experiment based on the G15 Expressway in Shanghai showed that abrupt stopping had the greatest impact on increasing collision risk, and the impact of violations increased with traffic volume. The methodology allows for the evaluation and monitoring of risks, alerting of road hazards, and identification of hotspots, and could be applied to the operations of existing facilities or planning of future ones.


Language: en

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