Modeling of Traffic Behavior in Traffic Safety Using a Reliability Approach

Abstract

Traffic behavior analysis plays a crucial role in traffic planning and management, especially for traffic safety. Traffic behavior analysis could be a very complex process under the influence of the personal features of traffic participant and external environment. This chapter aims at introducing a flexible and effective framework to model the traffic behavior in traffic safety. The concept of human reliability analysis is used to describe the characteristics of traffic behavior and the influence of various factors. Finally, a case study is presented as the application example of human reliability analysis in traffic behavior.