2025/11/22 by Liang, Shixiao, Ma, Chengyuan, Li, Pei +7
Engineering · #Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety #FOS: Electrical engineering #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques #Traffic and Road Safety #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.18148
openalex publication_date 2025/11/22 · openalex created_date 2025/11/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Real-time traffic crash detection is critical in intelligent transportation systems because traditional crash notifications often suffer delays and lack specific, lane-level location information, which can lead to safety risks and economic losses. This paper proposes a real-time, lane-level crash detection approach for freeways that only leverages sparse telematics trajectory data. In the offline stage, the historical trajectories are discretized into spatial cells using vector cross-product techniques, and then used to estimate a vehicle intention distribution and select an alert threshold by maximizing the F1-score based on official crash reports. In the online stage, incoming telematics records are mapped to these cells and scored for three modules: transition anomalies, speed deviations, and lateral maneuver risks, with scores accumulated into a cell-specific risk map. When any cell's risk exceeds the alert threshold, the system issues a prompt warning. Relying solely on telematics data, this real-time and low-cost solution is evaluated on a Wisconsin dataset and validated against official crash reports, achieving a 75% crash identification rate with accurate lane-level localization, an overall accuracy of 96%, an F1-score of 0.84, and a non-crash-to-crash misclassification rate of only 0.6%, while also detecting 13% of crashes more than 3 minutes before the recorded crash time.