DRIVER BEHAVIOUR STUDIES IN THE MOTORWAY OPERATIONS PLATFORM GRANT

This paper reports on a four-year project being undertaken in the U.K., which intends to address the causative mechanisms of motorway congestion, and how these may be overcome by the use of in-vehicle Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The project comprises five studies, two focussing on driver behaviour and performance, and three on microscopic simulation and road operations. This paper provides an overview of progress made and work in progress in the former of these topics, in particular: (i) Phase 1: an instrumented vehicle study collecting microscopic time series on how drivers behave in slow moving dense traffic. An overview of results from this phase is presented; and (ii) Phase 2: to be initiated in late 2001, looks to examine how drivers behave when faced with the requirement for an emergency deceleration. The study will use a combination of a surrogate vehicle/test track approach and a fixed base driving simulator study, in order to examine the advantages of the differing methodologies and (if validity is proven) to increase database size. A brief review is given of the intended use of outputs from these studies in subsequent simulation modelling studies to be undertaken in future years.

• Record URL:
  http://drivingassessment.uiowa.edu/DA2001/15_Brackstone_Mark.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of Iowa, Iowa City

  Public Policy Center
  227 South Quadrangle
  Iowa City, IA  United States  52242-1192
• Authors:
  • Brackstone, M
  • McDonald, M
• Conference:
  • Driving Assessment 2001: The First International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design
  • Location: Aspen, Colorado
  • Date: 2001-8-14 to 2001-8-17
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 87-92

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Drivers; Emergencies; Intelligent transportation systems; Traffic congestion
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00921575
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 22 2002 12:00AM