Print Email Facebook Twitter Road safety of passing maneuvers Title Road safety of passing maneuvers: A bivariate extreme value theory approach under non-stationary conditions Author Cavadas, Joana (Universidade de Coimbra) Azevedo, Carlos Lima (Center of Electron Nanoscopy) Farah, H. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Ferreira, Ana (Lisbon Technical University) Date 2020 Abstract Observed accidents have been the main resource for road safety analysis over the past decades. Although such reliance seems quite straightforward, the rare nature of these events has made safety difficult to assess, especially for new and innovative traffic treatments. Surrogate measures of safety have allowed to step away from traditional safety performance functions and analyze safety performance without relying on accident records. In recent years, the use of extreme value theory (EV) models in combination with surrogate safety measures to estimate accident probabilities has gained popularity within the safety community. In this paper we extend existing efforts on EV for accident probability estimation for two dependent surrogate measures. Using detailed trajectory data from a driving simulator, we model the joint probability of head-on and rear-end collisions in passing maneuvers. We apply the Block Maxima method and estimate several extremal univariate and bivariate models, including the logistic copula. In our estimation we account for driver specific characteristics and road infrastructure variables. We show that accounting for these factors improve the head-on and rear-end collision probabilities estimation. This work highlights the importance of considering driver and road heterogeneity in evaluating related safety events, of relevance to interventions both for in-vehicle and infrastructure-based solutions. Such features are essential to keep up with the expectations from surrogate safety measures for the integrated analysis of accident phenomena, which show to significantly improve from the best known stationary extreme value models. Subject Block maximaMultivariate EV distributionNon-stationary modelPassing maneuversRoad safetySmall probability estimation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:de04026c-58ba-4c5c-a1e5-5a5c6b131d15 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2019.105315 Embargo date 2022-11-20 ISSN 0001-4575 Source Accident Analysis & Prevention, 134 Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 Joana Cavadas, Carlos Lima Azevedo, H. Farah, Ana Ferreira Files PDF EVoverpassing_bivar_rev2. ... l_002_.pdf 879.86 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:de04026c-58ba-4c5c-a1e5-5a5c6b131d15/datastream/OBJ/view