DRIVER BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE USING AN INFRARED NIGHT VISION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM
Nighttime driving is unsafe due in part to the poor visibility of low contrast objects. Night Vision Enhancement Systems (NVES) offer a potential solution to this problem. However, there are concerns regarding driver distraction, object recognition, behavior compensation and direct vision impairments that need to be addressed. Incorporating lessons learned from a preliminary NVES study, crash analyses, and prior NVES research, a field experiment was designed to evaluate NVES. The evaluation used a 2000 Cadillac DeVille with Night Vision. Younger and Older drivers drove the vehicle along a predefined route on both public and closed roads. Targets consisted of traffic cones and pedestrians. All cones were heated and painted either black or white. Pedestrians wore either white or black clothing and were either stationary or waving their arms. Drivers were asked to provide separate detection and recognition responses for objects detected with headlights or indirectly via NVES and report speed limits
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Supplemental Notes:
- Publication Date: 2002. Transportation Research Board, Washington DC. Remarks: Paper 02-2355 prepared for presentation at the 81st annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. January 2002. Format: CD ROM
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Corporate Authors:
Jamiat al-Imarat al-Arabiyah al-Muttahidah
,University of California, Berkeley
California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
Richmond, CA United States 94804-4648University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Department of Civil Engineering, 500 Pillsbury Drive, SE
Minneapolis, MN United States 55455University of California, Irvine
Institute of Transportation Studies
4000 Anteater Instruction and Research Building
Irvine, CA United States 92697Purdue University
Joint Transportation Research Program
West Lafayette, IN United States 47907-2051Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
1005 North Glebe Road
Arlington, VA United States 22201Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System, 3135 TAMU
College Station, TX United States 77843-3135CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY
CHICAGO, IL United StatesUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake City
Utah Traffic Laboratory, 122 S Central Campus Drive
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84112University of Toronto
Intelligent Transportation Systems Center
Toronto, Ontario CanadaUniversity of Hawaii, Manoa
Department of Civil Engineering, 2540 Dole Street, Holmes Hall 383
Honolulu, HI United States 96822 -
Authors:
- Gish, Kenneth W
- Shoulson, Michael
- Perel, Michael
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 81st Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington D.C.
- Date: 2002-1-13 to 2002-1-17
- Date: 2002
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 23 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aged; Driving; Human factors; Safety; Three dimensional displays
- Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00922105
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
- Files: PATH
- Created Date: Apr 2 2002 12:00AM