Citation

Zou T, He F, Cai M, Li Y. Forensic Sci. Int. 2018; 291: 253-259.

Affiliation

Key Laboratory of Safety Design and Reliability Technology for Engineering Vehicle, Hunan Province 410114, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.08.029

PMID

30243224

Abstract

There is always more than one method can be employed to reconstruct a traffic accident and then more than one result can be obtained. How to describe these different results becomes an issue. Two solutions were given, the first is to fuse different results to one result, while the other is to rank different results according to their credibility.

METHODS based on the Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operator and Uncertain Ordered Weighted Averaging (UOWA) operator were proposed to fuse different certain results and different interval results to one result, respectively. And methods based on the Combination Weight Arithmetic Average (CWAA) and OWA operators were proposed to rank different certain or interval results. Finally, a true vehicle-motorcycle accident was given to demonstrate these proposed methods, results showed that all methods work well in practice. If the calculation uncertainty was not considered, the fused result 64.56km/h and a ranked vector can be obtained; if the calculation uncertainty was considered, the fused result [62.13, 68.13]km/h and a ranked interval number set can be obtained. Because that all final results were obtained by employing widely used mature operators, they deserve to be trusted. The research provides more reliable choices to describe different results obtained from different methods in accident reconstruction.

Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Language: en

Keywords

Accident reconstruction; Different results; Fusing; Operator; Ranking