SURVIVAL ANALYSIS BASED MODELING OF URBAN TRAFFIC INCIDENT DURATION: A SHANGHAI CASE STUDY

摘要

Because of the intensively use of urban expressway for a long time, any small disturbancelike traffic incidents may cause a large-scale congestion on expressway network in Chinesemetropolises. How to know well about the formation mechanism and propagationcharacteristics is being increasingly perceived as the most challenging problems for safetyexpressway management. Traffic incident duration is one of most important parameters toreflect traffic congestion intensity, and numerous measures have been developed to describethe characteristics of traffic incidents and the vast majority of these studies use data mining.Though they inform us what objective elements of the environment may influence trafficincident, the how question-via what way these physical features affect traffic incident-islargely unexplored. Based on the historical traffic data of viaduct expressways in Shanghai,this paper introduces survival analysis into the analysis of traffic incident mechanism, and asurvival Analysis-Based Modeling of urban traffic incident duration is presented. This modelfirst analyzes the time attributes of many traffic incident samples, and employs nonparametricregression based Kaplan-Meyer model to estimate hazard-based traffic incident duration time.Then, the key influence factors of traffic incident are divided into five types and thespatial-temporal distribution characteristics of traffic incident duration time are analyzed.Finally, COX regression is used to model the co-evolution between multidimensionalinfluencing factors of traffic incident duration. The key characteristic parameters ofexpressway incident management in Shanghai are optimized to analyze the evolutionmechanism of incident duration. The result shows that, for different type of influencingfactors, the spatial-time distribution of traffic incident duration in Shanghai expressway existssignificant difference, and factors like day & night, incident type, related vehicle number,related lane number, location, bottleneck and trailer will affect the incident durationsignificantly.