Speed Behavior in a Suburban School Zone: A Driving Simulation Study with Familiar and Unfamiliar Drivers from Puerto Rico and Massachusetts

Traffic crashes in suburban school zones pose a serious safety concern due to a higher presence of school-age pedestrians and cyclists as well as potential speeding issues. A study that investigated speed selection and driver behavior in school zones was carried out using two populations from different topographical and cultural settings: Puerto Rico and Massachusetts. A school zone from Puerto Rico was recreated in driver simulation scenarios and local drivers who are familiar with the environment were used as subjects. The Puerto Rico school simulation scenarios were replicated with subjects from Massachusetts to analyze the impact of drivers’ familiarity on the school-roadway environment. Twenty-four scenarios were built with pedestrians, on-street parked vehicles, and traffic flow used as simulation variables in the experiment. Results are presented in terms of speed behavior, reaction to the presence of pedestrians, speed compliance, and mean reduction in speeds for both familiar and unfamiliar drivers.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20503-4
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  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-20503-4_30
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  • © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
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  Springer International Publishing

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• Authors:
  • Valdés, Didier
  • Knodler, Michael
  • Colucci, Benjamín
  • Figueroa, Alberto
  • Rojas, Maria
  • Colón, Enid
  • Campbell, Nicholas
  • Tainter, Francis
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation (AHFE 2019)
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2019-7-24 to 2019-7-28
• Publication Date: 2019-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: 1
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 319-329
• Monograph Title: Advances in Human Factors of Transportation: Proceedings of the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, July 24-28, 2019, Washington D.C., USA
• Serial:
  • Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
  • Volume: 964
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • ISSN: 2194-5357
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/bookseries/11156

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driving behavior; Driving simulators; Speed and delay studies; Speed zones
• Geographic Terms: Massachusetts; Puerto Rico
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01880624
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9783030205027
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 21 2023 9:51AM