SIMULATING DRIVING BEHAVIOR

The Texas Transportation Institute's Center for Transportation Safety is home to a fully interactive driving simulator, which allows participants to navigate a real vehicle through a realistic computer- generated driving environment. The center works closely with safety- related work being pursued by other agencies. The largest project to use the simulator, which has been in operation since 1999, tested 200 participants to examine drivers' preferences for left-turn signal displays. Two additional projects measured drivers' distractions due to cell phone use and other in-vehicle devices such as navigation systems. Another recent project is an on-line, two-way integration of the driving simulator with the traffic microsimulation program, VISSIM. Another is investigating how pedestrians interact with the roadway environment.

• Record URL:
  • http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/researcher/ttr-v38-n4.pdf
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• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1587330
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 1600 E Lamar Boulevard
  Arlington, TX  United States  76011
• Authors:
  • Chrysler, S
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 8
• Serial:
  • Texas Transportation Researcher
  • Volume: 38
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Texas Transportation Institute
  • ISSN: 0040-4748

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile drivers; Driving simulators; Research
• Identifier Terms: Texas Transportation Institute
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00941489
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: May 1 2003 12:00AM