Effects of In-Vehicle Navigation on Perceptual Responses and Driving Behaviours of Drivers at Tunnel Entrances: A Naturalistic Driving Study

The perceptual responses and driving behaviors of drivers at tunnel entrances vary, which could cause interference and accidents. This study investigated the effects of in-vehicle navigation on the perceptual responses and driving behaviors and whether these effects are actually valid for safety improvement. For this purpose, a series of naturalistic driving experiments was conducted and a comparative analysis was performed considering two different experiment conditions, control condition and in-vehicle navigation condition. Under each condition, the performances of twenty drivers at seven tunnels were evaluated. The area from 200 m outside the tunnel portal to 200 m inside the tunnel portal was averagely divided into four zones. In each zone, two types of perceptual responses (visual responses and psychological responses) and driving behaviors were analyzed using six indicators: number of fixations, average duration of fixations, time interval between continuous R-waves, skin conductance response, speed difference in zones, and maximum deceleration. The results showed that in-vehicle navigation significantly affects the perceptual responses and driving behaviors of drivers, and these effects varied in different zones of the tunnel entrance. Furthermore, in-vehicle navigation was found to be valid for safety improvement because beneficial changes in four of the six indicators proved to be effective at appropriate zones. The remaining two indicators, average duration of fixations and maximum deceleration, were not valid, implying that the difficulty of driving information cognition and driving comfort could not be improved by in-vehicle navigation. Moreover, a negative correlation was discovered between the number of fixations and speed difference in zones. This study provides engineers a new knowledge by extending the quantifiable approaches to the analyses of the effectiveness of the effects of in-vehicle navigation.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9468451
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2019 Xinsha Fu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
• Authors:
  • Fu, Xinsha
  • He, Shijian
  • Du, Jintao
  • Ge, Ting
• Publication Date: 2019

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 13p
• Serial:
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Volume: 2019
  • Issue Number: Article ID 9468451
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0197-6729
  • EISSN: 2042-3195
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-3195
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Driver information systems; Drivers; Eye fixations; Perception; Psychological aspects; Tunnels
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01717094
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 18 2019 9:17AM