Yaman T.T.Bilgiç E.Esen M.F.2024-03-132024-03-13202197830305115552194-5357https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51156-2_72https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/2943International Conference on Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, INFUS 2020 -- 21 July 2020 through 23 July 2020 -- -- 242349Injury severity in motor vehicle traffic accidents is determined by a number of factors including driver, vehicle, and environment. Airbag deployment, vehicle speed, manner of collusion, atmospheric and light conditions, degree of ejection of occupant’s body from the crash, the use of equipment or other forces to remove occupants from the vehicle, model and type of vehicle have been considered as important risk factors affecting accident severity as well as driver-related conditions such as age, gender, seatbelt use, alcohol and drug involvement. In this study, we aim to identify important variables that contribute to injury severity in the traffic crashes. A contemporary dataset is obtained from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). To identify accident severity groups, we performed different clustering algorithms including fuzzy clustering. We then assessed the important factors affecting injury severity by using classification and regression trees (CRT). The results indicate that the most important factor in defining injury severity is deployment of air-bag, followed by extrication, ejection occurrences, travel speed and alcohol involvement. © 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessData miningInjury severityTraffic accidentsConference Object10.1007/978-3-030-51156-2_722-s2.0-85088749229633N/A6251197 AISC