Traffic flow on straight roads is the most common traffic phenomenon in urban road traffic networks. In this paper, a realistic cellular automaton (CA) model is proposed to investigate driver behavior on urban straight roads based on our field observations. Two types of driver behavior, free and car-following, are simulated. Free driving behavior is modeled by a novel five-stage speeding model ...

Knowledge of the current and future driving context could facilitate the interaction between human driver and advanced driver assistance systems. A driver's intended actions (the future context) can be inferred from a number of sources, including the driver's current control actions, their visual scanning behavior, and the traffic environment surrounding them. In an approach similar to hidden M...

The Problem. The driving task involves a host of relevant cognitive, perceptual, and motor abilities. Cognitive architectures—frameworks for modeling human cognition and behavior—have evolved to integrate known theories of human cognition into unified theories that account for a wide range of cognitive phenomena. Role of Driving Simulators. Models of driver behavior based on cognitive architect...

A hi-fidelity driving simulator with the 300 degree screen and an actual vehicle cabin on hexapod motion platform has been developed in order to measure driving behavior, including visual behavior, in town environment. For measuring the driving behavior, various driving parameters were recorded. The eye glancing direction was detected by combining the eyetracking system and the head-tracking sy...

Effect of driver’s awareness (e.g., to estimate the speed and arrival time of another vehicle) on the lane changing maneuver is discussed. “Scope awareness” is defined as the visibility which is required for the driver to make a visual perception about road condition and the speed of vehicle that appears in the target lane for lane changing in the road. Cellular automaton based simulation model...

Adaptive techniques support the development of new tools to help traffic engineers classify and evaluate traffic flow at intersections. We describe a tool that learns to associate driver behavior with a subset of traffic controls, e.g. stoplights and stop signs. In the case where the traffic controls for an intersection are not readily available or are unknown, the tool automatically identifies...

Few studies have examined the impact of safety climate upon occupational safety behavior or intentions, focusing instead on the event of incidents and injuries. Similarly, while safety climate has been studied in numerous industrial settings, limited attention has been given to the motor vehicle fleet context. This study conceptualized safety climate and work-related driver safety within a mode...

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Driving simulators have been widely used to investigate driver behavior and psychophysiological responses. In this paper, we proposed to use multiple participant-operated driving simulators which communicate with each other so the platoon formed by the simulators can demonstrate realistic effects of driver-driver interaction in simulation scenarios. In our preliminary experiment, three driving ...

Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANET) emerged as an application of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET), which use Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) to allow vehicles in close proximity to communicate with each other, or to communicate with roadside equipment. Applying wireless access technology in vehicular environments has led to the improvement of road safety and a reduction in the number of fa...