STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM
Feng Guo, Associate Professor
Virginia Tech
Driving Risk Assessment with the Naturalistic Driving Study
Abstract
Traffic crashes is the leading cause of death with 35,000 to 40,000 fatalities annually. This talk will introduce driving risk assessment using the naturalistic driving study, an innovative way of investigating traffic safety and driving behaviors. The NDS monitors the driving process continuously through video recording devices, various radar and kinematic sensors installed on subject vehicles. The large data collected provide rich information but also bring challenges in data analysis and modeling. This talk will introduce the characteristics of NDSs, epidemiological approaches for video-based risk modeling, recurrent event models, and rare-event prediction. I will also introduce latest findings using the second Strategic Highway Research Plan Naturalistic Driving Study, the largest NDS with more than 3,500 drivers with more than one million hours of driving data.
DATE: Friday, October 19, 2018
TIME: 11:00 am
PLACE: Philip E. Austin Bldg., Rm. 108
Coffee will be served at 10:30 am in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326)
For more information, contact: Tracy Burke at tracy.burke@uconn.edu