Document Type
Article
Version Deposited
Published Version
Publication Date
11-9-2023
Publication Title
International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology
DOI
10.1016/j.ijtst.2022.12.002
Abstract
Wrong-way driving (WWD) has been a long-lasting issue for transportation agencies and law enforcement, since it causes pivotal threats to road users. Notwithstanding being rare, crashes occurring due to WWD are more severe than other types of crashes. In order to analyze WWD crashes, there is a need to obtain WWD incidents or crash data. However, it is time-consuming to identify actual WWD crashes from potential WWD crashes in large crash databases. It often involves large man-hours to review hardcopy of crash narratives in the police reports. Otherwise, it may cause an overestimation or underestimation of WWD crash frequencies. To fill this gap, the present study, as the first-of-its-kind, aims at identifying actual WWD crashes from potential WWD crashes in police reports by using machine learning methods. Recently, Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) models have shown promising results in natural language processing. In this study, we implemented the BERT model as well as five conventional classification algorithms, including Naïve Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), and Single Layer Perceptron (SLP) to classify crash report narratives as actual WWD and non-WWD crashes. Cross-validation and different performance metrics were used to evaluate the performance of each classification algorithm. Results indicated that the BERT model outperformed in identifying actual WWD crashes in comparison with other algorithms with an accuracy of 81.59%. The BERT classification algorithm can be implemented to reduce the time needed to identify actual WWD crashes from crash report narratives. © 2022 Tongji University and Tongji University Press
Recommended Citation
Hosseini, Parisa; Khoshsirat, Seyedalireza; Jalayer, Mohammad; and Das, Subasish, "Application of text mining techniques to identify actual wrong-way driving (WWD) crashes in police reports" (2023). Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering Faculty Scholarship. 310.
https://rdw.rowan.edu/engineering_facpub/310
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