Phase II Investigation of Safety at Toll Plazas Using Driving Simulation

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• Alternative Title:
  Evaluation of real-world Toll Plazas Using Driving Simulation
• Creators:
  Knodler, Michael A. ; Hajiseyedjavadi, Foroogh
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Safety Research Using Simulation (SAFER-SIM) University Transportation Center ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Behavior
  • Driver performance
  • Drivers
  • Driving simulators
  • Human factors
  • Toll plazas
  • Traffic safety Highways
  • Operations and Traffic Management
  • Safety and Human Factors
  • simulators
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Massachusetts
• Corporate Publisher:
  Safety Research Using Simulation (SAFER-SIM) University Transportation Center
• Abstract:
  This report presents human behavior analysis at toll plazas through driving simulation. The same toll plaza from the first part of the study was modeled in Realtime Technologies Inc. (RTI) SimCreator software. The virtual world created for the simulator was a 600 m by 200 m (1968.5 ft by 656.168 ft) sketch of the West Springfield toll plaza. Five variables, including toll plaza lane configuration (i.e., which lanes were signed as E-ZPass and Cash), traffic queue (i.e., having a queue or not), traffic composition (i.e., having a leading heavy vehicle or not), origin-destination of the subject driver (i.e., right or left origin ramp, right or left destination ramp), and customer type (i.e., cash or E-ZPass driver), were defined, in order to find their effect on drivers’ lane choice. The result of this simulation study is expected to give a better understanding of drivers’ behavior at toll plazas and could lead to safer toll plaza designs. Also, the result could be used to modify and enhance drivers’ behavior parameters in microsimulation software like VISSIM.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/37159/dot_37159_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.31 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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