Attention-Attracting Facilities Utilizing Phototaxis

In an attempt to prevent excessive increases or decreases in speed when driving motor vehicles, Central Nippon Expressway Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as “C-NEXCO”) is currently conducting research on controlling a driver’s sense of speed, etc., by installing light-emitting devices on highway shoulders at regular intervals and by regulating their emission of light according to an arbitrary light-emitting pattern. Research results on the control of speed utilizing light-emitting devices have been accumulated. Regarding conventional research to urge drivers to regulate their traveling speed by drawing their attention or guiding their lines of sight to blinking or the turning on of light-emitting devices sequentially placed along potentially dangerous road areas, one issue of difficulty concerned responding to excessive traveling speed caused by becoming “acclimatized” to the speed and any excessive decrease in speed during sagging road section. In this paper, as an effort to control the sense of speed utilizing the perception of self-motion induced by visual sensation (hereinafter referred to as “vection”) and as a focus on taxis that move in response to the stimulus of light (hereinafter referred to as “phototaxis”), the authors would like to report on a basic examination conducted through a questionnaire experiment using CG simulation images and the actual effects thereof, as verified in experiments on actual roads conducted using an expressway under construction (based on the examination results).

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Index Title: Attention-Attracting Facilities Utilizing Phototaxis (Perception of Self-Motion Induced by Visual Sensation). Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Yamamoto, Kouji
  • Takahashi, Hideki
  • Tago, Kazutoshi
  • Tsuji, Mitsuhiro
  • Oneyama, Hiroyuki
• Conference:
  • 18th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Orlando Florida, United States
  • Date: 2011-10-16 to 2011-10-20
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: 18th ITS World Congress, Orlando, 2011. Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drivers; Human information processing; Light emitting diodes; Motion perception; Operating speed; Speed control; Street lighting; Visual perception
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01471998
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 11 2013 9:14AM