Analysis of traffic accident severity using Decision Rules via Decision Trees

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Highlights：

• A new method to obtain Decision Rules, based on Decision Trees, and an application on datasets about traffic accident severity are presented.

• The method uses different Decision Trees obtained via different split criteria and a procedure to vary the root node.

• Our studies are focused on traffic accident data from rural roads in Granada (Spain) from 2003 to 2009.

• It is shown that the new method extracts a high number of relevant rules.

• The results obtained could also be used in future road safety campaigns.

摘要

•A new method to obtain Decision Rules, based on Decision Trees, and an application on datasets about traffic accident severity are presented.•The method uses different Decision Trees obtained via different split criteria and a procedure to vary the root node.•Our studies are focused on traffic accident data from rural roads in Granada (Spain) from 2003 to 2009.•It is shown that the new method extracts a high number of relevant rules.•The results obtained could also be used in future road safety campaigns.

论文关键词：Traffic accident,Severity,Road safety,Decision Trees,Decision Rules

论文评审过程：Available online 17 May 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2013.05.027