Abstract
ObjectivePowered Two Wheeler (PTW) vehicles are one of the preferred modes of transport used in India. Also, PTWs accidents are comparatively more frequent than other type of accidents on road. The influencing factors of PTW accidents are also differ from factors that affect other accident types. The objective of this study is to analyze newly available PTWs road accident data from Uttarakhand state in India and revealing the factors that affect the severity of these accidents in various districts of Uttarakhand..MethodologyTo analyze the factors that affect the severity of road accidents in Uttarakhand, initially we have compared three popular classification algorithms i.e. decision tree (CART), Naïve Bayes and Support vector machine on PTW accident data set. The decision tree algorithm’s (CART) classification accuracy was found better than other two techniques. Hence we have preferred CART algorithm to extract the factors that affect the severity of PTWVs accidents in whole Uttarakhand state and its 13 districts separately.Experimental ResultsThe analysis of PTWVs accident data using CART for 13 districts of Uttarakhand and the whole state reveals that every districts have different factors associated with PTW accidents severity. There are some districts in Uttarakhand state which have similar PTW accident patterns, whereas few districts are found to have different PTW accident patterns. These results are very useful to understand the pattern of PTW accidents in Uttarakhand state. These results can certainly be helpful to overcome the PTWs accident rate in Uttarakhand state.
Highlights
Traffic accident can be considered as an incident in which one or more vehicles collide with another vehicle, person, animal or any other fixed object
The motivation behind this study is to identify the different factors that affect severity of road accidents among Powered Two Wheeler (PTW) accidents in Uttarakhand state
We have identified several factors that affect the severity of PTW accidents in Uttarakhand, India that will certainly help in overcome the accident rate
Summary
Traffic accident can be considered as an incident in which one or more vehicles collide with another vehicle, person, animal or any other fixed object. The traffic accident affects the life of victims involved in accidents and affects the life of their associated peoples i.e. family members, business associates etc. Every road accident is left with a record in police database or hospital database. This record consists of various important information about road accidents i.e. time, date and location of accident, weather information, road characteristics and traffic information at the time of accident. The proper analysis of this information can certainly produce some good results. These results can be utilized to know the factors behind road accidents and certain accident preventive efforts can be taken
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