Assessment of the Use of a Driving Simulator for Traffic Engineering and Human Factors Studies

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• Alternative Title:
  Assessment of the Use of a Driving Simulator for Traffic Engineering Studies Title from Cover
• Creators:
  Klee, Harold ; Radwan, Essam
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Central Florida. Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Special Programs Administration ; United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Driving simulators
  • Gap acceptance
  • Human factors
  • In vehicle annunciators
  • Merging traffic
  • Radar
  • Traffic engineering
  • Warning systems
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Central Florida. Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation
• Abstract:
  The goal of this project was to design one or two studies involving traffic engineering and human factors that could be conducted in the University of Central Florida driving simulator instead of relying on actual field test data. Two separate projects were chosen. The first involved the subject of gap acceptance by drivers. Published data for gap acceptance for a specific type of merging maneuver was compared to the experimental results obtained in the driving simulator under similar merging conditions. The second study was a human factors investigation of a radar based safety warning system using in-vehicle voice and text warnings to alert drivers about the presence of impending conditions requiring their attention.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  BC096/RPWO#18
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/63139/dot_63139_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 577.40 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b90faafec29caeec0fe30591aa339041b6c151ca597e3c5c2018e5fb8837b6d0