Comparative Study on Data Mining Classification Algorithms for Predicting Road Traffic Accident Severity

According to World Health Organization report the number of deaths by road traffic accident is more than 1.25 million people and every year with non-fatal accidents affecting more than 20–50 million people. Several factors are contributed on the occurrence of road traffic accident. In this study, data mining classification techniques applied to establish models (classifiers) to identify accident factors and to predict traffic accident severity using previously recorded traffic data. Using WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) data mining decision tree (J48, ID3 and CART) and Naïve Bayes classifiers are built to model the severity of injury. The classification performance of all these algorithms is compared based on their results. The experimental result shows that the accuracy of J48 classifier is higher than others.