Virginia Tech Transportation Safety Index (VTTSI)

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21154v1
• Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:46:16 GMT
• Title: Virginia Tech Transportation Safety Index (VTTSI)
• Abstract summary: Virginia Tech Transportation Safety Index (VTTSI) is a real-time, cloud-native framework for intersection safety.<n>System produces interpretable, exposure-adjusted safety scores on a 0--100 scale every 15 minutes.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The Virginia Tech Transportation Safety Index (VTTSI) is a real-time, cloud-native framework for quantifying intersection safety using multimodal connected-vehicle telemetry and multi-year VDOT crash history. Traditional crash-based methods rely on lagged, aggregated data and cannot reflect rapidly changing operational conditions. VTTSI addresses this gap through a hybrid modeling approach that fuses Empirical Bayes (EB) crash stabilization, uplift factors derived from speed and conflict behavior, and a CRITIC-weighted multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) module combining SAW, EDAS, and CODAS. The system produces interpretable, exposure-adjusted safety scores on a 0--100 scale every 15 minutes. A cloud-deployed architecture built on FastAPI, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and Streamlit supports interactive visualization of traffic volumes, VRU exposure, speed variance, and real-time incident activity. Validation across intersections demonstrates coherent diurnal patterns, consistency among MCDM methods, and sensitivity to observable operational turbulence. Sensitivity analysis further shows that the RT--SI is robust to parameter perturbations, with deviations typically remaining below one point on the 0--100 scale. By integrating long-term crash risk with short-term behavioral dynamics, VTTSI provides a transparent, adaptive, and proactive safety-monitoring framework suitable for transportation agencies, traffic management centers, fleet operators, and autonomous vehicle systems.%~\cite{persaud2007, montella2020systemic, schultz2025_surrogate, Amraji2025CombinedSafetyIndex}.

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