Nadeem Malik^1,*, Saud Altaf¹, Muhammad Usman Tariq², Ashir Ahmed³, Muhammad Babar⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1599-1615, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040455

Abstract The severity of traffic accidents is a serious global concern, particularly in developing nations. Knowing the main causes and contributing circumstances may reduce the severity of traffic accidents. There exist many machine learning models and decision support systems to predict road accidents by using datasets from different social media forums such as Twitter, blogs and Facebook. Although such approaches are popular, there exists an issue of data management and low prediction accuracy. This article presented a deep learning-based sentiment analytic model known as Extra-large Network Bi-directional long short term memory (XLNet-Bi-LSTM) to predict traffic collisions based on data collected from… More >

Peng Chen¹, Weiwei Zhang^1,*, Ziyao Xiao¹, Yongxiang Tian²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.130, No.1, pp. 97-109, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.016632

Abstract Road accident detection plays an important role in abnormal scene reconstruction for Intelligent Transportation Systems and abnormal events warning for autonomous driving. This paper presents a novel 3D object detector and adaptive space partitioning algorithm to infer traffic accidents quantitatively. Using 2D region proposals in an RGB image, this method generates deformable frustums based on point cloud for each 2D region proposal and then frustum-wisely extracts features based on the farthest point sampling network (FPS-Net) and feature extraction network (FE-Net). Subsequently, the encoder-decoder network (ED-Net) implements 3D-oriented bounding box (OBB) regression. Meanwhile, the adaptive least square regression (ALSR) method is… More >

Pengfei Gong^1,2, Qun Wang^2,*, Junjun Zhu³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 31-42, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.017695

Abstract This study analyzed in-depth investigation reports for 418 traffic accidents with at least five deaths (TALFDs) in China from 2016 to 2019. Statistical analysis methods including hierarchical cluster analysis were employed to examine the distribution characteristics of these accidents. Accidents were found to be concentrated in July and August, and the distribution over the seven days of the week was relatively uniform; only Sunday had a higher number of accidents and deaths. In terms of 24-hour distribution, the one-hour periods with the most accidents and deaths were 8:00–9:00, 10:00–11:00, 14:00–15:00, and 18:00–19:00. Tibet, Qinghai, and Ningxia had the highest death… More >

Pengfei Gong^1,2, Qun Wang^2,*, Junjun Zhu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1389-1408, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016483

Abstract Fatal traffic accidents in urban areas can adversely affect the urban road traffic system and pose many challenges for urban traffic management. Therefore, it is necessary to first classify emergency responses to such accidents and then handle them quickly and correctly. The aim of this paper is to develop an evaluation index system and to use appropriate methods to investigate emergency-response classifications to fatal traffic accidents in Chinese urban areas. This study used a multilevel hierarchical structural model to determine emergency-response classification. In the model, accident attributes, urban road network vulnerability, and institutional resilience were used as classification criteria. Each… More >