Exploring precrash maneuvers using classification trees and random forests

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-107

  Harb, Rami ^a   Yan, Xuedong ^b   Radwan, Essam ^a   Su, Xiaogang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident avoidance; Angle accident; Decision trees; Head on accidents; Random forests; Rear end accidents

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; BINARY TREES; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RANDOM PROCESSES; VEHICLES; VISIBILITY;

ACCIDENT AVOIDANCE; ANGLE ACCIDENT; HEAD-ON ACCIDENTS; RANDOM FORESTS; REAR-END ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENTS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CAR DRIVING; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57849165378     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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