Abstract
Transportation safety planning challenges in the era of smart cities entail understanding safety impacts from disruptive technologies, measuring the effectiveness of safety countermeasures, proactively identifying high crash risk locations, etc. Recent advancement in communication technologies and big data analytics enables us to deal with these challenges in a computationally efficient way. Traditional transportation management centers (TMCs) have limited capability to utilize large amounts of data to properly evaluate transportation safety. The goal of this project is to develop an intelligent transportation management center (ITMC) that adopts automated video data analysis to evaluate safety. The proposed ITMC demonstrates how intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies and big data analytics can be utilized to proactively assess transportation safety at signalized intersections. Conventional methods of traffic safety risk assessment at signalized intersections, measured by number of roadway crashes per unit of exposure, would require a long observation time as crashes are rare events. The proposed ITMC adopts safety surrogate measures (SSMs) to identify near crash situations that can be applied in proactive risk calculations.
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Research Investigators (PI*)
Arash Jahangiri (SDSU)*
Christopher P. Paolini (SDSU)
Sahar Machiani (SDSU))
Zac Doerzaph (VTTI)
Mike Mollenhauer (VTTI)
Project Information
Start Date: 2019-04-01
End Date: 2023-07-15
Status: Completed
Grant Number: 69A3551747115
Total Funding: $400,762
Source Organization: Safe-D National UTC
Project Number: 04-110
Safe-D Theme Areas
Safe-D Application Areas
Planning for Safety
Risk Assessment
Infrastructure Technology
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Sponsor Organization
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC 20590 United States
Performing Organization
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr
San Diego, CA 92182
USA
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
3500 Transportation Research Plaza
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
USA