Transcript PPT - ANB45

FHWA Data Mining Efforts to
Develop Better Insights on
Causes and Outcomes of
Rollover Crashes
Ana Maria Eigen
Kenneth S. Opiela
Federal Highway Administration
Prepared for: TRB ANB45(1) Rollover Subcommittee Meeting
Objective
To enhance understanding of
roadway element data from
collected but uncodified
information
Insights and Precedents
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NCHRP projects
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NMVCCS data collection
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Roadside hardware identification (e.g.17-15,17-22)
Proposed codification schemes for finite data set
State-of-the art photographic data collection
On-scene data collection
Office of Safety Roadway Departure Definition
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Fatality Analysis Reporting System variables and
attributes forming FHWA-accepted terminology
Rollover contemplated indirectly
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
Problems with Current Data Sets
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How does the Roadway look?
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Does the Roadway have effect?
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On-scene
Secondary source
Injury causation
Vehicle damage
Can the composite effect of driver, vehicle,
and environment or be disaggregated into a
singular effect?
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FHWA
NHTSA
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
Supplementary Data Acquisition
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National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Study
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Fatality Analysis Reporting System
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2005 through 2007 (1.5 years weighted data)
Case photographs
2001 through 2009, with geographical location
Google Earth Images
National Automotive Sampling System
Crashworthiness Data System
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Improved images, based upon NMVCCS model
•Insights and Precedents
Case photographs
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
Relevant Variables and Attributes
SAS Query Parameters Yielding Crashes
FARS, NMVCCS,
NASS CDS Vehicle
Body Type
Passenger
Car
Sport Utility
Vehicle
Van
(mini, commercial)
Pick up
Truck
FARS Relevant
Object
Impact Attenuator
Guardrail Face
Concrete Barrier
Other Traffic Barrier
Guardrail End
Cable Barrier
FARS
Secondary
Location
Comparison
TWAY_ID
TWAY_ID2
MILEPT
FARS
Geographical
Location
Longitude
Latitude
NMVCCS
NASS CDS
Relevant Object
Concrete Traffic
Barrier
Impact Attenuator
Other traffic barrier
(includes guardrail)
2008 - onward
Metal guardrail
Cable guardrail
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
Summary of Data, by Availability
Crash
Basic
Data
Type
Data Elements
Codified
Unavailable
Uncodified
Basic Vehicle Data
Basic Occupant
Demography
Precise vehicle
General Vehicle Contacts trajectory
Geographical Location
Specific Type of
Element
Roadway, Roadside
Description
Geographical Location given for FARS, providing Google Earth Coordinates
NASS CDS and NMVCCS provide scene photographs
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
Relevant Data Sets
Potential Crashes for Review
Rollover
among
Relevant
Cases
Relevant
Vehicles
to Total
2005-2007
126,384
(439)
26%
(20%)
3.1%
NASS CDS
2005-2009
1,542,633
(848)
16%
(20%)
7.6%
FARS
2001-2009
794
45%
0.2%
Dataset
NMVCCS
Years
Relevant: First Event, Barrier Impact
Relevant
Vehicles
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
Improved NMVCCS Photography
Example 1
Improved coding and photographic
substantiation with regard to paint transfer
and vehicle interactions with barrier
Example 2
Supplemental detail to coding with
regard to barrier type &
installation features (e.g., height)
“The Role of a National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation
Study-Style Dataset in Analysis of Rollover Crashes “ (Eigen, 2010)
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
FARS Coded Data, Google Earth Image?
Vehicle
Event
1
2
3
4
5
6
LATITUDE +46.0647
LONGITUDE -112.773
5
Attribute
Guardrail Face
Jackknife*
Bridge Rail
Overturn
Veh Airborne
Ditch**
1
4
3
2*
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Ford F-Series Pickup
Rollover Crash
Vehicle Fatalities, 2
Note: *Jackknife may be inconsistent with pick up truck
design. **Ditch may be embankment.
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
NASS CDS Data
LATITUDE Unpublished
LONGITUDE Unpublished
Vehicle
Event Attribute
Other Traffic
1 Barrier
Other Traffic
2 Barrier
3 Rollover, 1 qt
Area of
Damage
Front
Left
Left
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Ford Fusion
Vehicle Fatalities, 0 (AIS 1,7)
Climb-over
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
NMVCCS Data
LATITUDE Unpublished
LONGITUDE Unpublished
Occupant: 15 months - 79
(4 occupants)
Outcome: Uninjured
General Crash Data
Occupant: 15 months - 79
YO
(4 occupants)
Outcome: Uninjured
Parameter
Attribute
Color
Dark Green
Events
2
Pre
Impact
Events
Lane departureright side Lane
return- right side
Roadway
departure- left
side
Estimated
Distance of
Rollover
5m
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
Possible Relationships of
Selected NMVCCS
Variables to External Data
Roadway Crash
Environment
Selected Variables
Posted Speed Limit
AASHTO-Applied
Roadway Deficiency
functional class
qualitative relationship to design
issues such as radius of curvature
Surface Type
Skid resistance
FHWA-Compiled
Other
test speeds
roadway design
public roadway inventory
roadway design
Roadway design
Manual
for
Assessing
Safety
roadside
Object
Hardware, pending rollover criteria
environment
Roadside Design Guide, pending
roadside
Location
rollover criteria
environment
Note: Those relationships contemplated in this study denoted in bold. Prospective relationships for future study in Italics.
Rollover
Specific
Relation to Junction
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
Next Steps for Data
Collection
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Identify remaining 2001 through 2005 FARS
crashes
Compile photographic supplemental data set
using
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•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
FARS 2001 through 2009 data
NMVCCS 2005 through 2007
NASS CDS 2005 through 2009, properly
photographed
Make data available to interested parties
Potential Benefits to Safety
Community?
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Improved understanding of Rollover Crashes
Added specificity to the Roadway Departure
Definition
Increased codified data drawn from
compilation precedent
Emphasized synergies drawn from continued
Interagency cooperation
•Insights and Precedents
•Supplementary Data
Acquisition
•Target publications
•Next Steps
Thank you for your attention
Contact Information:
Kenneth S. Opiela
[email protected]
Ana Maria Eigen
[email protected]