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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Driver safety"”.
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Real Time Driver Safety System
The technology for driver safety has been developed in many fields such as airbag system, Anti-lock Braking System or ABS, ultrasonic warning system, and others. Recently, some of the automobile companies have introduced a new feature of driver safety systems. This new system is to make the car …
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Driver Safety and Emissions at Different PPLT Indications
… The main goal of this thesis is to study the driver behavior and analyze safety of drivers for different left turn indications using a real-time driving simulator. Different signal indications alter driver behavior which influences velocity and acceleration profiles. These profiles influence …
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Case study: changing perceptions of the value of driver safety
… and improve the effectiveness of at-work road safety initiatives. Key to the design, implementation and evaluation of such initiatives, and to creating a workplace culture of driver safety, is a greater understanding of the behaviours and attitudes to risk of professional van drivers and how to …
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Effects of Age-Related Declines in Visual Motion Processing on Older Driver Safety
… in visual motion processing affect older drivers’ ability to drive safely. In particular, these experiments assess the efficacy of: 1) A test of motion sensitivity, the Peripheral Motion Contrast Threshold (PMCT) test, which evaluates ones’ contrast threshold for detecting motion in the …
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The A.R.K. Project: A Grassroots, Student-Led, Multiple-Component Intervention to Increase Driver Safety-Belt Use on a University Campus
… on the VT campus, in an attempt to increase driver safety-belt use. Observations on VT students' safety-belt use and other safety-related behaviors (i.e., turn-signal use and cell-phone use) were made during pre-intervention, intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up study phases and …
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Assessing Driver Behavior in the Context of Driving Environment
Driver-related factors have long been an important component in traffic safety. Studies to assess driver behavior and the related safety concerns have primarily used data that does not capture the dynamic nature of driving tasks. The widespread use of naturalistic driving data in recent years allows …
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On the Control of Vehicle Dynamics for Partial Automation for Consumer Vehicles
… efficiency, reduce traffic congestion, improve driver safety, and increase driver comfort. Rollout of CAV technologies to consumer vehicles has been approached via two methods: driver assistance/partial autonomy (Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Levels 1, 2 and 3) and high/full autonomy …
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Latent Class Model in Transportation Study
… research, has been widely used to analyze driver safety, travel time, traffic flow and numerous other problems. Many of these popular topics can be interpreted as to establish the statistical models for the latent structure of data. Over the past several years, the interest in latent class …
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Standard values : change in urban arterial street design
… in design standards, mostly based on passive driver safety design. Since then, legal action has given rise to bicycle and ADA-based design standards. Right-of-way constraints have lowered minimum widths and "flexibility" has impacted design philosophy and process. However, these latter forces …
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Efficacy, national/international practices and motivational factors of lifelong driver education for the aging population
… increase in its aging population, older driver education/training is emerging as a potential solution to help seniors drive more safely, thus maintaining their mobility and quality of life. Nonetheless, sufficient evidence has not emerged directly linking such programs to significant …
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HDL implementation of a controller area network node
… to large volumes of wire that negatively affect safety, power demands, and future design opportunities. A new trend among automotive manufacturers is to design and implement innovative networks that allow for shared communications between technologies.</p> <p>This thesis presents the design, …
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Community-based feedback to promote road safety
… the effects of community-based feedback on the safety belt use of drivers in a small community in Southwest Virginia, while drivers on an intersecting highway served as a control group. An AB design was used to test the effects of the feedback on belt use. Turn signal use and right and left hand …
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Post-Processing Method for Determining Peaks in Noisy Strain Gauge Data with a Low Sampling Frequency
… driving behavior, and its correlation to safety critical events, by equipping participant's vehicles with data acquisition systems and recording them for a period of time. The driver's habits and responses to certain scenarios and events are analyzed to determine trends and opportunities …
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Evaluating the Feasibility of Integrating Webcam-Based Eye Tracking into Hazard Perception Assessments
Hazard perception is fundamental to driver safety, yet current assessment methods, including those employed by the UK Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), rely primarily on reaction-time-based scoring and ofer limited insight into the attentional processes underlying hazard detection. …
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Towards a Safety-Centric Evaluation Framework for Augmented Reality Head-up Displays
This dissertation proposes a pathway towards a safety-centric evaluation framework for augmented reality head-up displays (AR HUDs) in automotive contexts, addressing critical shortcomings in traditional testing methods and emphasizing the integration of human factors. Conducted through a …
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Estimation of Driver Behavior for Autonomous Vehicle Applications
… driven vehicle, a task which is referred to as driver behavior estimation. This task requires a qualitative-quantitative architecture capable of explaining the driver/vehicle coupling being observed. A vehicle's ability to determine other vehicle's likely behavior also has applications to driver …
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Appling Machine and Statistical Learning Techniques to Intelligent Transport Systems: Bottleneck Identification and Prediction, Dynamic Travel Time Prediction, Driver Run-Stop Behavior Modeling, and Autonomous Vehicle Control at Intersections
… of practice algorithms. Finally we consider driver safety at signalized intersections and uncontrolled intersections in a connected vehicles environment. For signalized intersections, we exploit datasets collected from four controlled experiments to model the stop-run behavior of the driver …
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Web-Based Assessment and Brief Motivational Intervention to Increase Safety-Belt Use on a University Campus
While safety-belt use markedly reduces morbidity and mortality, many young adults in the U.S. do not buckle-up 100% of the time. Following a series of community-level interventions on a university campus, this dissertation project focused on promoting individual-level safety-belt use. More …
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