From Few to Many: Using Copulas and Monte Carlo Simulation to Estimate Safety Consequences
With the introduction of more advanced vehicle technology, it is paramount to assess its safety benefit. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) can reduce crashes and mitigate crash severity, if designed appropriately. Driver behavior models are integral to the ADAS design process, complementing time and resource intensive human participant experiments. The authors introduce a method to model driver responses to forward collision events by quantifying multivariate behavior with copulas and Monte Carlo simulation. This approach capitalizes on the data from small samples of crash events observed in naturalistic or simulator studies. Copulas summarize data by capturing the underlying joint distribution of variables, and Monte Carlo methods can be used to repeatedly sample from these distributions. A driver model can be parameterized with these samples, and run on a desktop driving simulation environment.
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- Abstract reprinted with permission of University of Iowa Public Policy Center.
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Corporate Authors:
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Public Policy Center
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Authors:
- Venkatraman, Vindhya
- Lee, John D
- Schwarz, Chris W
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Conference:
- 8th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design
- Location: Salt Lake City Utah, United States
- Date: 2015-6-22 to 2015-6-25
- Publication Date: 2015
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 366-372
- Monograph Title: Driving Assessment 2015: Proceedings of the 8th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior; Benefits; Driver support systems; Drivers; Frontal crashes; Monte Carlo method; Safety
- Candidate Terms: Copula-based models
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01582273
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9781495167973
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 25 2015 11:25AM