Novice, adolescent driver overrepresentation in road crashes is a well-documented, robust phenomenon. Driver education and training are popular but controversial interventions that have rarely demonstrated safety benefits. Flight simulators have proven effective in pilot training and the decreasing costs and increasing quality of simulation technology make driving simulatorbased training (DSBT)...

Autonomous driving has emerged as one of the most active areas research it promise making transportation safer and more efficient than ever before. Most real-world autonomous pipelines perform perception, motion planning action in a loop. In this work we present MADRaS, an open-source multi-agent simulator for use design evaluation algorithms driving. Given start goal state, task is to solve se...

Many transport organizations now regard regular employees as important contributors to their security strategies. For this reason, it is essential to understand the interaction between service and security tasks. There is empirical evidence, for example, that workers under pressure to be punctual make more errors in the performance of safety procedures. It is therefore useful to determine wheth...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether driving simulator and road test evaluations can predict long-term driving performance, we conducted a prospective study on 11 patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Sixteen healthy subjects were also tested to provide normative values on the simulator at baseline. METHOD At their initial evaluation (time-1), subjects' driving skills were measure...

This paper presents the development of a realistic driving simulator and its use in the study of driving education methods. In this study, a large set of persons without driving license will be used. Each person will be submitted to a driving course that may include driving lessons in a real car and / or in the driving simulator. The realism used in the simulation can be adjusted between the cl...

BACKGROUND Age-related cognitive decline is often associated with unsafe driving behavior. We hypothesized that 10 active training sessions in a driving simulator increase cognitive and on-road driving performance. In addition, driving simulator training should outperform cognitive training. METHODS Ninety-one healthy active drivers (62-87 years) were randomly assigned to one of three groups:...

While driving simulators are a valuable tool for assessing multiple dimensions of driving performance under relatively safe conditions, researchers and practitioners must be prepared for participants that suffer from simulator sickness. This paper describes multiple theories of motion sickness and presents a method for assessing and reacting to simulator sickness symptoms. Results showed that t...

Field operational testing for the study of driver behavior requires extensive preparation and precaution measures to limit subjects risk exposure during experiment. Moreover, inherent variability in testing conditions may introduce error in the experiment results. Alternatively, a driving simulator offers the ability to replicate driving situations in a safe and repeatable experimental environm...

Besides primary driving task, we used to have additional actions, for example, operating some buttons and looking for something. Such secondary actions have been the major cause of accidents. Using a driving simulator the effect of the physical workloads on driving performance was examined for two traffic situations. From the experimental results, the driving performance was influenced by the b...