AUTOMOBILE DIRECTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND DRIVER STEERING PERFORMANCE

Driver steering performance in a simple circular lane-keeping task, as dependent on the directional response characteristics of the vehicle, was measured. Response surface methodology models of steering performance are presented. Several canonical variables describe the drivers' responses to vehicle changes. Clear-cut optimum vehicle characteristics cannot be determined, but certain combinations of vehicle characteristics are seen to be undesirable for various reasons related to theoretical mechanisms of driver steering control. /Author/TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Swets and Zeitlinger BV

  3476 Heerweg, Publications Department
  Lisse,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Sweatman, P F
  • Joubert, P N
• Publication Date: 1976-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 155-170
• Serial:
  • Vehicle System Dynamics
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 0042-3114
  • EISSN: 1744-5159
  • Serial URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/nvsd20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drivers; Driving; Evaluation and assessment; Handling characteristics; Mathematical models; Motor reactions; Motor skills; Reaction time; Regression analysis; Steering; Tests; Vehicle characteristics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver reaction; Handling
• Old TRIS Terms: Direction
• ITRD Terms: 1772: Driver; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 6473: Mathematical model; 2247: Reaction (human); 6588: Regression analysis; 2205: Skill (road user); 1834: Steering (process); 6255: Test; 1646: Vehicle handling
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00149895
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 17 1977 12:00AM