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Traffic Accident Data Mining Using Machine Learning Paradigms Miao Chong, Ajith Abraham and Marcin Paprzycki Computer Science Department, Oklahoma State University, USA ajith.abraham@, marcin@ Abstract – Engineers and researchers in the automobile industry have tried to design and build safer automobiles, but traffic accidents are unavoidable. Patterns involved in dangerous crashes could be detected if we develop a prediction model that automatically classifies the type of injury severity of various traffic accidents. These behavioral and roadway patterns are useful in the development of traffic safety control policy. We believe that to obtain the greatest possible accident reduction effects with limited budgetary resources, it is important that measures be based on scientific and objective surveys of the causes of accidents and severity of injuries. This paper presents some models to predict the severity of injury that occurred during traffic accidents using three machine-learning approaches. We considered neural networks trained using hybrid learning approaches, decision trees and a concurrent hybrid model involving decision trees and neural networks. Experiment results reveal that among the machine learning paradigms considered the hybrid decision tree-neural network approach outperformed the individual approaches. I. INTRODUCTION AND RELATED RESEARCH The costs of fatalities and injuries due to traffic accidents have a great impact on society. In recent years, researchers have paid increasing attention at determining the factors that significantly affect driver injury severity in traffic accidents. Abdelwahab et al. studied the 1997 accident data for the Central Florida area [2]. The analysis focused on vehicle accidents that occurred at signalized intersections. The injury severity was divided into three classes: no injury, possible injury and disabling injury. They compared the performance of Multi-layered Perceptron