Exploiting the use of recurrent neural networks for driver behavior profiling

Driver behavior affects traffic safety, fuel/energy consumption and gas emissions. The purpose of driver behavior profiling is to understand and have a positive influence on driver behavior. Driver behavior profiling tasks usually involve an automated collection of driving data and the application of computer models to classify what characterizes the aggressiveness of drivers. Different sensors and classification methods have been employed for this task, although low-cost solutions, high performance and collaborative sensing remain open questions for research. This paper makes an investigation with different Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), aiming to classify driving events employing data collected by smartphone accelerometers. The results show that specific configurations of RNN upon accelerometer data provide high accuracy results, being a step towards the development of safer transportation systems.

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