Shandong Science ›› 2025, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (5): 104-114.doi: 10.3976/j.issn.1002-4026.20240094

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Research on an adaptive accident duration-prediction model based on freeway accident data

JIANG Xiaoqing1(), WAN Qingsong1, HAO Wenbang1, LI Li2,*(), CHENG Weiping1   

  1. 1. Shandong Hi-speed Information Group Co.,Ltd.,Jinan 250102,China
    2. School of Electronics and Control Engineering,Chang'an University,Xi'an,710064,China
  • Received:2024-07-27 Revised:2024-09-02 Published:2025-10-20 Online:2025-10-11

Abstract:

Freeway traffic accidents seriously affect road safety and accessibility. Accurately predicting the durations of accidents is key to improving emergency response efficiency,alleviating traffic congestion,and reducing the risk of secondary accidents. This paper proposes an adaptive parameter-optimization model based on a deep belief network (DBN) and genetic algorithm (GA) for predicting traffic accident durations. Traffic accident data from freeways in Shandong province were collected from 2020 to 2022,including 16 variables such as road,temporal attributes,and environmental attributes. The Spearman correlation coefficient and box plots were used to analyze the correlation between each variable and the accident duration,ensuring the validity and significance of the selected variables. Based on this analysis,we developed an adaptive parameter optimization-based prediction model,GADBN,using numerous traffic accident data. This model integrates the global search and optimization capabilities of the GA to notably improve the predictive accuracy of the DBN. To validate the model effectiveness,experimental comparisons were conducted with other algorithms such as support vector regression,radial basis functions,XGBoost,and DBNs,with mean absolute percentage error (δMAPE) and root-mean-square error (δRMSE) being used as evaluation metrics. The experimental results showed that the GADBN model achieved δMAPE and δRMSE values of 16.49% and 9.12,respectively,outperforming the other comparison models,thereby demonstrating its effectiveness and practicality.

Key words: traffic safety, traffic accidents, accident duration, adaptive parameter optimization, freeway

CLC Number: 

  • U491.31