Research Article

An Efficient Traffic Incident Detection and Classification Framework by Leveraging the Efficacy of Model Stacking

Table 5

Description of dependent variables.

Var. nameClassesDescription

Incident severityHighThe incident either accident, congestion, or reckless driving that takes more than 10 minutes before clearance/identification
MediumThe incident either accident, congestion, or reckless driving that takes from 5 to 10 minutes before clearance/identification
LowThe incident either accident, congestion, or reckless driving that takes up to 5 minutes before clearance/identification

Incident typeAccidentThe vehicular and weather-related variables show the classified incident is an accident
CongestionThe vehicular and weather-related variables show congestion
Reckless drivingThe vehicular and weather-related variables show that the incident is reckless driving