Evaluation of road safety performance indicators using OWA operators

Elke Hermans, Da Ruan, Tom Brijs, Geert Wets, Koen Vanhoof

    Research outputpeer-review

    Abstract

    Road safety performance indicators have recently been proposed as a useful instrument in comparing countries on their performance of road safety risk factors. New insights can be gained in case one road safety index is composed of all risk indicators. The safety performance can be evaluated, countries can be ranked, trends identified and the impact of measures assessed. However, the aggregation process is still unclear in this context. In this paper, the use of ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators will be experimented for an evaluation of road safety performance indicators. More specifically, several basic and more advanced aggregation operators will be applied to our indicator data set and the final index scores are then compared to the number of road fatalities per million inhabitants. It is demonstrated that compensation should not be allowed too much in the road safety context. All indicators should be incorporated in the final index to some extent and weaker performances should be stressed more.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationComputational Intelligence in Decision and Control
    Subtitle of host publicationWorld Scientific Proceedings Series on Computer Engineering and Information Science
    Place of PublicationSingapore
    PublisherWorld Scientific Publishing
    Pages695-700
    Number of pages6
    Volume1
    ISBN (Print)978-981-279-946-3
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Sep 2008
    Event2008 - 8th International FLINS Conference on Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control - Madrid
    Duration: 21 Sep 200824 Sep 2008
    Conference number: FLINS 2008

    Publication series

    NameComputer Engineering and Information Science
    Number1

    Conference

    Conference2008 - 8th International FLINS Conference on Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control
    Country/TerritorySpain
    CityMadrid
    Period2008-09-212008-09-24

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