Crash Narrative Analysis: Project Update








Subasish Das

Associate Transportation Researcher

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)

May 4, 2017




Outline

  • Project Update
  • Preliminary Analysis
  • Future Tasks

Project Update

  • Crash Narrative from Louisiana DOT is collected.
  • Years: 2010-2015.
  • Crash data from 2010-2014 is available. Waiting for 2015.
  • Different text mining algorithms are applied by using 2010 crash narratives.
  • Primary emphasis is on 'Farm Equipment' related crash narratives.

Data Content

Sample Crash Narrative

Dataset 1 Bigram

Dataset 2 Bigram

Dataset 1 Trigram

Dataset 2 Trigram

Dataset 1 Chord Diagram

Dataset 2 Chord Diagram

What's next?

  • Exploratory data analysis using both crash data and crash narrative data.
  • Text mining on combined dataset.
  • Metadata joining by using LaDOTD crash data.
  • Bayesian network development.
  • Topic Model development.

Questions?