Feasibility assessment of the use of transit bus driving simulators : final report.
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2012-08-01
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Abstract:The United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has initiated a multimodal connected vehicle research initiative (hereafter referred to as the “Initiative”) that aims to enable safe, interoperable, networked, wireless communications among vehicles, the infrastructure, and passengers’ personal communications devices. The Initiative includes research on technical issues, policy and non-technical issues, safety, mobility, and environmental application areas. This research also assesses technologies and applications to determine their potential benefits and costs.
Developing and testing safety, mobility, and environmental applications for transit vehicles is expensive and time consuming. Once a system is designed, components must be developed and integrated. A field test site must be selected and a test system deployed, data gathered and analyzed, and findings documented. The use of transit bus driving simulators to test and evaluate proposed transit technologies would reduce the time and cost associated with executing a field operational test.
Many transit agencies currently make use of driver training simulators to train drivers. If it can be shown to be feasible to modify these simulators rapidly to emulate the field environment, product design, evaluation, and deployment may be less costly and require less time. In addition, if driver training simulators can be sufficiently adapted, a demonstration of the technology capability could be conducted for stakeholders.
With this goal in mind, this document describes the results of a feasibility study designed to explore the following questions:
• Can current bus driving simulators be used to support Initiative purposes?
• What are the alternatives from among which a solution can be chosen?
• Is there a preferred alternative among these potential solutions?
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