Research Article

Analyzing Accident Injury Severity via an Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) Model

Table 1

Data list of main variables related to crashes.

VariableCategoriesValueFatal (n = 169)Injury (n = 385)

Time of dayDay (7:00–19:00)192 (54.4%)263 (68.3%)
Night (19:00–7:00)077 (45.6%)122 (31.7%)
Day of weekWeekday1118 (69.8%)294 (76.4%)
Weekend/holiday051 (30.2%)91 (23.6%)
Rush hourRush hour (7:00–9:00, 17:00–20:00)149 (29.0%)126 (32.7%)
Off-peak hour0120 (71.0%)259 (67.3%)
WeatherGood (sunny, cloudy)1138 (81.7%)320 (83.1%)
Adverse (rainy, snowy, etc.)031 (18.3%)65 (16.9%)
Crash positionRoad section1110 (65.1%)266 (69.1%)
Intersection059 (34.9%)119 (30.9%)
Crash involvementsVehicle-bicycle153 (31.4%)179 (46.5%)
Vehicle-pedestrian0116 (68.6%)206 (53.5%)