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Table 3 Traffic incident duration prediction studies

From: Overview of traffic incident duration analysis and prediction

Method Category

Methodology

 

Data source

Duration time phase

Accuracy

Regression model

Time sequential method

(truncated regression model)

Khattak et al. [5]

109 larger incidents

Duration time

Not test without available dataset

Regression model

Garib et al. [6]

205 incidents

Incident duration

81% (adjusted R2)

Linear regression (LR)

Peeta et al. [7]

835 crashes and 1176 debris

Clearance time

R2: 0.234 for crashes; 0.362 for debris

OLS regression models

Khattak et al. [32]

59,804 incidents

Incident duration

Best MAPE: 37%a

A linear model with a stepwise regression

Yu, Xia [66]

503 records

Incident duration

Acceptable (77.8% predictions have an error within 60 min)

Cluster-based log-normal distribution model

Weng et al. [67]

2512 accidents

Accident duration

Best MAPE: 34.1%

Quantile Regression

Khattak et al. [68]

85,000 incidents

Incident duration

RSME: 57.49 min

Fuzzy system

Fuzzy system model

Kim, Choi [69]

2457 incidents

Incident service time

Average error: 0.3 min

Fuzzy logic (FL) model

Wang et al. [70]

457 records

Incident duration

Average performance

Fuzzy duration model

Dimitriou, Vlahogianni [71]

1449 accidents

Accident duration

Best MAPE: 36%.

Classification Tree Method (CTM)

Decision tree

Ozbay, Kachroo [22]

650 incidents

Clearance time

60% less than 10 min

Non-parametric regression and CTM

Smith, Smith [43]

6828 accidents

Clearance time

Not good (correct rate 58%)

CTM

Knibbe et al. [72]

1853 incidents

Incident duration time

Theoretical reliability: 65%

Hybrid tree-based quantile regression

He et al. [40]

1245 incidents

Incident duration

MAPE: 49.1%.

M5P tree algorithm

Zhan et al. [15]

2585 incidents

Lane clearance time

MAPE: 42.7%.

CTM

Chang, Chang [73]

4697 cases

Incident duration

Accuracy of classification: 75.1%.

Artificial neural networks

FL and ANNs

Wang et al. [74]

695 vehicle breakdowns

Incident duration

RMSE: about 20%

ANNs

Wei, Lee [33]

39 accidents

Accident duration

MAPE: 20%–30%

ANN-based models

Wei, Lee [16]

24 incidents

Incident duration

MAPE mostly under 40%.

A sequential forecast based on two ANN-based models

Lee, Wei [17]

39 accidents

Accident duration

The MAPE value at each time point is mostly under 29%.

Multiple LR; DT; ANN; SVM/RVM; K nearest neighbour (KNN)

Valenti et al. [19]

237 incidents

Incident duration

MAPE of the five models: 34%–44%.

Four adaptive ANN-based models

Lopes et al. [56]

10,762 incidents

Clearance time

Model 4: 72% incidents: <10 min error; 92%: <20 min error

Topic modelling and ANN-based models

Pereira et al. [45]

10,139 accidents

Incident duration

A median error of 9.9 min in the best model

ANN models

Vlahogianni, Karlaftis [18]

1449 accidents

Accident duration

Accuracy defined in the paper is about 10%

Bayesian ANNs

Park et al. [57]

13,987 incidents

Incident duration

MAPE: 0.18–0.29.

Bayesian networks

Bayesian networks

Ozbay, Noyan [75]

700 incidents

Incident clearance times

Accuracy of approximately 80%

Probabilistic model based on a naïve Bayesian classifier (NBC)

Boyles et al. [8]

2970 incidents

Incident duration

Classification is correct half of the time.

Bayesian decision model

Ji et al. [76]

1853 incidents

Incident duration

Theoretical reliability of 74%

Tree-augmented NBC and a continuous model based on latent Gaussian NBC

Li, Cheng [77]

2973 incidents

Incident duration

The frequency of the correct classification is below 0.5.

Bayesian network

Shen, Huang [78]

2629 incidents

Incident duration

overall classification accuracy is 72.6%

hazard-based duration model

Time sequential procedure with HBDM

Qi, Teng [55]

1660 incidents

Remaining incident duration

Accuracy increases with more information

Log-logistic AFT model

Chung [58]

4869 accidents

Accident duration

MAPE: 47%.

Log-logistic AFT model

Hu et al. [35]

5362 incidents

Incident duration

MAPE: 43.7%.

Weibull AFT model

Kang, Fang [79]

1327 incidents

Incident duration

MAPE: 43%.

KNN and Log-logistic AFT model

Araghi et al. [34]

5362 incidents

Incident duration

MAPE: KNN: 41.1%; AFT: 43.7%

HBDM

Ji et al. [38]

24,604 incidents

Clearance and arrival time

39.68% of incident: <10 min error

Competing risk mixture HBDM

Li et al. [52]

12,093 incidents

Incident duration

MAPE: 45% for >15 mins

G-component mixture model

Zou et al. [44]

2584 incidents

Clearance time

MAPE: 39%

SVM

Ordered probit model and SVM

Zong et al. [80]

3914 cases

Accident duration

MAPE: 22%

SVM

Wu et al. [81]

1853 incidents

Incident duration

Total accuracy: 70%

Combined/hybrid

Ordered probit model and a rule-based supplemental module

Lin et al. [10]

22,495 incidents

Incident duration

Duration less than 60 min is 82.25% (within 10-min error)

CTM and Rule-Based Tree Model (RBTM), DCM

Kim et al. [14]

4 years’ worth of data

Incident duration

The overall confidence is more than 80%.

A hybrid model that consists of a RBTM, MultiNomial Logit model (MNL), and NBC

Kim, Chang [20]

6765 records

Incident duration

Performed satisfactorily for incidents that last from 120 to 240 min

Combined M5P tree and HBDM

Lin et al. [54]

602 accident records

Accident duration

MAPE: 36.2% for I-64 and 31.87% for I-190.

  1. aThe best mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) is 37% for the incidents that lasted for approximately 15 min