OBJECTIVE This study examined the effectiveness of rear-end collision warnings presented in different sensory modalities while drivers were engaged in cell phone conversations in a driving simulator. BACKGROUND Tactile and auditory collision warnings have been shown to improve braking response time (RT) in rear-end collision situations. However, it is not clear how effective these warnings ar...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.054 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (V. Milané To decrease traffic accidents is a declared target of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Among them, rear-end collisions are one of the most common and constitute one of the as yet unsolved topics in the automotive sector. This paper ...

A large amount of traffic crash investigations have shown that rear-end collisions are the main type on freeway. The purpose this study is to investigate collision risk Firstly, a new framework was proposed develop probability (RCP) model between two vehicles based Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD). Secondly, freeway (F-RCR) defined as sum each vehicle and divided into three levels which hi...