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Activity Number: 462 - SAMSI Program on Transportation Statistics
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Transportation Statistics Interest Group
Abstract #330981 Presentation
Title: Exploring Efficiency of Statistics Methods to Compare Highly Automated Vehicle and Human Crash Rates
Author(s): Carol A.C. Flannagan*
Companies: University of Michigan, Transport Research Institute
Keywords: Automated vehicles; Extreme-Value Analysis; Bayesian rate comparison
Abstract:

The imminent launch of highly automated vehicles (HAVs) into the general driving environment calls for close attention to analysis of their safety performance. A report by Kalra & Paddock (2016) evaluated the miles required to reach p=0.05 significance using a one-sample Poisson compared to a fixed population rate based on national crash datasets. Our analysis explored the effect of making different underlying assumptions and using alternative methods to evaluate HAV safety. First, we establish a crash rate that is based on likely initial HAV release in a lower-speed, rideshare environment and is represented as Poisson-gamma, which has greater variance than the Poisson. Using this rate, we explore the efficiency of Bayesian one-sample comparisons and Extreme Value Analysis, the latter using a measure of forward proximity where a value of zero represents a crash. Finally, we propose some alternative ways to think about this problem more holistically.


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