An iterative k-means clustering approach for identification of bicycle impediments in an urban traffic network
2020 (English)In: International Journal of Traffic and Transportation Management, ISSN 2371-5782, Vol. 2, no 2, p. 35-42Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The bicycle has many positive effects; however, bicyclists are more vulnerablethan users of other transport modes, andthe number of bicycle related injuries and fatalities are toohigh.We present a clustering analysis aiming to support the identification of the locations ofbicyclists' perceived unsafety in an urban trafficnetwork, so-called bicycle impediments.In particular, we presentan iterative k-means clustering approach, which in contrast to standard k-means clustering, enables to remove outliers and solitary points from the data set. In our study, we used data collected by bicyclists travelling inthe city of Lund, Sweden, where each data point defines a location andtime of a bicyclist's perceived unsafety.The results of our study show that 1) clustering is a usefulapproach in order to support the identification of perceived unsafelocations forbicyclists in an urban traffic networkand2) it might bebeneficial to combine different types of clustering to support theidentification process. Furthermore, using the adjusted Rand index, our results indicate highrobustness of our iterative k-means clustering approach.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
International Association for Sharing Knowledge and Sustainability , 2020. Vol. 2, no 2, p. 35-42
Keywords [en]
Cluster analysis, k-means, iterative k-means, DBSCAN, Click-point data, bicycle impediment
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36623DOI: 10.5383/jttm.02.02.005OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-36623DiVA, id: diva2:1498765
2020-11-052020-11-052022-12-08Bibliographically approved