Spatial analysis of traffic accidents based on WaveCluster and vehicle communication system data

Abstract

The frequent occurrence of traffic accidents has always been an important problem troubling traffic safety management, so exploring the law and characteristics of case occurrence in a space area has profound significance for the prevention of traffic accidents. Starting from the space-time angle and based on the traffic accident data, this article firstly carries out the wavelet decomposition of the incident data of time series to realize the problem optimization of sparse matrix and then studies the spatial differentiation pattern of traffic accidents through the k-means clustering method. And under the formed differentiation pattern, the spatial and temporal laws of the incident are deeply analyzed. Finally, accident causes based on vehicle information system data are analyzed. The results show that the traffic accident space in Beijing is divided into 5 categories, among which, the hot spot space is the area with large traffic volume, diverse driver quality, or the junction of urban and rural roads, and the vehicle information system distracting the driver’s attention is also the cause of accidents from a micro view through vehicle information system data.