From common driving experiences, car drivers are unwilling to follow heavy vehicles owing to speed and visibility obstructions, and most of them choose to change lanes to mitigate such obstructions. In literature, however, the impact of heavy vehicles on lane-changing decisions of following car drivers has rarely been investigated. In this study, a methodology for shedding light on such impact ...

Background A major proportion of fatally injured traffic accident victims are car drivers; in Norway in 1999 car drivers made up 47% of such victims (1). Several of the accidents involving these car drivers cannot be explained by the traffic environment (road, weather conditions etc), technical defects on cars or by risk taking behaviour (reckless driving, high speed etc). Impairment of the dri...

Travel entertainment has been advanced greatly by the new achievement of positioning technologies and wireless networks. The evolution of the GPS technologies enables the popularity of car navigation systems. Also, the development of location-based games and in-game advertising provide the drivers more entertainment. Integrating the navigation system and in-game advertising to be a new type of ...

Nowadays, car navigation systems are widely used for providing directions to drivers’ destination. However, they do not always recommend a route that perfectly matches the driver’s intent. Even when drivers intentionally change the driving route from the recommended one to another, most of car navigation systems lead them back to the original recommended route. Such recommendations may not adeq...

In the current study we examined the relationship between drivers’ eye movement patterns and driving performance in a dual-task driving paradigm. Drivers performed two tasks in a driving simulator. In a car following task, drivers were asked to maintain a constant headway from a leading vehicle as it varied its speed. In the second task (light detection task), drivers tried to detect changes in...

The study of human behavior during driving is of primary importance for the improvement of drivers' security. This study is complex because of numerous situations in which the driver may be involved. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical fuzzy system for human in a driver-vehicle-environment system to model takeover by different drivers. The driver’s behavior is affected by the environment. ...

Young drivers in Israel, as in other parts of the world, are at an elevated risk of being involved in car crashes more than any other age group. A Graduated Driver Licensing System (GDL) has been introduced in Israel, requiring new drivers to be accompanied by an experienced driver during the first 3 months after obtaining a driving license. In an effort to ensure the effectiveness of the accom...

The paper presents work on user modelling of car drivers. The paper presents an implemented solution to user modelling in the car, which includes an aspect of location-based user modelling.

Experiments with a driving simulator contradict previous results by showing that car drivers slow down in fog. However, other forms of reduced visibility can cause drivers to speed up.