The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies road traffic injuries
as a global health problem. The Eastern-Mediterranean region is
particularly suffering from low traffic safety levels, recording the third
highest death per capita ratio in the world. It is critical to evaluate and
understand the causes of crashes and their severity levels as a first
step to devising policies that aim to reduce these causes. Previous
studies examining the frequency or severity of crashes present
important limitations that motivate the need for the current work.
While these studies have investigated the relation of contributing
factors to severity of crashes, not until recently the importance of
these factors are being investigated.
This is a first study analyzing the severity of vehicle-to-vehicle
crashes among drivers in the United Arab Emirates. Traffic Crash
Data was obtained from the Abu Dhabi Police, which consisted of
11,400 observations during the period 2014–2017.
The feature importance analysis indicates that the age of car, age of
the injured, and the age of the initiator have the highest effect on
severity, which is an important finding as the listed factors were
rarely considered in previous studies
Severity of vehicle-to-vehicle
accidents in the UAE:
An exploratory analysis
using machine learning algorithms
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Full article published in: Heliyon Volume 9, Issue 10 | 2023
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Dr. Praveen Kumar
Maghelal
Associate Professor and
Lead Researcher
Rabdan Academy
Abdulrahim Haroun Ali
Elie Azar
Raja Jayaraman
and others
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