Using support vector machine models for crash injury severity analysis

The research also investigated the potential of using the SVM model for evaluating the impacts of external factors on crash injury severities. The sensitivity analysis results show that the SVM model produced comparable results regarding the impacts of variables on crash injury severity as compared to the OP model. For several variables such as the length of the exit ramp and the shoulder width of the freeway mainline, the results of the SVM model are more reasonable than those of the OP model.