Evaluating the safety of autonomous vehicle–pedestrian interactions: An extreme value theory approach

• Published in: Analytic methods in accident research Vol. 35; p. 100230
• Main Authors: Alozi, Abdul Razak, Hussein, Mohamed
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2022
• Subjects: Autonomous vehicles; AV-pedestrian collisions; Extreme value theory; Pedestrian safety; AV-pedestrian collisions; Pedestrian safety; Extreme value theory; Autonomous vehicles

•A modeling framework to evaluate pedestrian safety in AV environments is presented.•The models are developed based on the Extreme Value Theory.•The framework depends on actual AV-pedestrian conflicts to capture realistic behavior.•Model covariates are utilized to increase the estimation accuracy.•2...