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Impact of Heterogeneous Dispersion Parameter on the Expected Crash Frequency

이질적 과분산계수가 기대 교통사고건수 추정에 미치는 영향

  • Shin, Kangwon (Department of Urban Design and Development Engineering, Kyungsung University)
  • 신강원 (경성대학교 도시공학과)
  • Received : 2014.08.11
  • Accepted : 2014.09.11
  • Published : 2014.09.30
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Abstract

This study tested the hypothesis that the significance of the heterogeneous dispersion parameter in safety performance function (SPF) used to estimate the expected crashes is affected by the endogenous heterogeneous prior distributions, and analyzed the impacts of the mis-specified dispersion parameter on the evaluation results for traffic safety countermeasures. In particular, this study simulated the Poisson means based on the heterogeneous dispersion parameters and estimated the SPFs using both the negative binomial (NB) model and the heterogeneous negative binomial (HNB) model for analyzing the impacts of the model mis-specification on the mean and dispersion functions in SPF. In addition, this study analyzed the characteristics of errors in the crash reduction factors (CRFs) obtained when the two models are used to estimate the posterior means and variances, which are essentially estimated through the estimated hyper-parameters in the heterogeneous prior distributions. The simulation study results showed that a mis-estimation on the heterogeneous dispersion parameters through the NB model does not affect the coefficient of the mean functions, but the variances of the prior distribution are seriously mis-estimated when the NB model is used to develop SPFs without considering the heterogeneity in dispersion. Consequently, when the NB model is used erroneously to estimate the prior distributions with heterogeneous dispersion parameters, the mis-estimated posterior mean can produce large errors in CRFs up to 120%.

본 연구는 기대 교통사고건수 추정을 위해 사용되는 SPF의 이질적 분산계수의 유의성이 이질적 사전분포에 직접적인 영향을 받는다는 가설을 검증하고, 이질적 사전분포에 대한 모형 오설정이 교통 안전개선 사업의 평가결과에 주는 영향의 특성을 분석하기 위해 수행되었다. 구체적으로 본 연구에서는 이질적 분산계수의 유의성과 이질적 사전분포의 연관성을 검증하기 위해 모의실험을 통해 이질적 사전분포를 발생시킨 후 이를 NB모형과 HNB모형을 이용하여 SPF를 추정하여 이질적 과분산계수가 SPF의 평균함수 및 분산함수에 주는 영향을 분석하였다. 또한 추정된 계수추정치를 이용한 사전분포의 초모수 추정치의 오차특성과 이질적 과분산계수를 고려하지 않았을 경우 발생하는 교통사고감소계수(CRF)의 오차 부호와 크기를 상세 분석하여 제시하였다. 모의실험 자료 분석결과 이질적 분산계수의 오추정은 포아송 사전분포의 평균에는 큰 영향을 주지 않으나 분산의 크기를 변화시켜 궁극적으로는 기대교통사고건수의 추정량인 사후평균의 값에 오차를 발생시킬 수 있으며, 구체적으로 이질적 분산함수를 NB모형으로 오설정할 경우 CRF의 값은 참값에 비해 최대 120%의 오차를 발생시키는 것으로 나타났다.

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