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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Driving behaviors"”.
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Examining Attention, Impulsiveness, and Cognitive Failures in Driving Behaviors
<p>Dangerous driving behaviors are influenced by multiple factors including cognitive processes such as impulse inhibition and attentiveness. Impulsiveness, inattention, and cognitive failures have been linked to other risky behaviors, but a comprehensive evaluation using multiple methods of …
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Forecasting Markers of Habitual Driving Behaviors Associated with Crash Risk
… variables and readings of the vehicle’s driving parameters, selecting the most informative features out of them to feed an extreme gradient boosting machine learning algorithm. The model operates upon these select features in a time window covering the recent past to make short-term …
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Enhancing Road Safety through Machine Learning for Prediction of Unsafe Driving Behaviors
… monitoring driver activity to prevent distracted driving accidents. Focusing on Virginia's intersections, we thoroughly examine traffic participant interactions to identify and mitigate conflicts, employing graph-based modeling of traffic scenarios to evaluate contributing parameters. …
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Risk Propensity, Self-Efficacy and Driving Behaviors Among Rural, Off-Duty Emergency Services Personnel
… rural roadways, rural EMS personnel face unique driving challenges that may be exacerbated by the very traits, self-efficacy and risk propensity, that may have initially drawn them to the profession. The purpose of this study was to identify the extent to which rural EMS personnel engage in …
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The Relationship of Early Class Start Times on Sleepiness and Driving Behaviors in an Emerging Adult Population
… examined the link between sleepiness and teenage driving behaviors, including the relationship between school start times and sleepiness. In all, 536 participants were recruited to participate in an online survey assessing driving and sleep behaviors. Correlations and path analysis found that …
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SOCIAL NETWORK INFLUENCE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING BEHAVIORS: THE ROLE OF PROXIMAL AND DISTAL SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS ON TEXTING WHILE DRIVING
Texting while driving (TWD) continues to be a prevalent issue among emerging adults, with approximately 51.4% of people ages 16-19 and 45.1% of people ages 20-24 stating they had sent text messages while driving during the last 30 days. Social Norms Theory suggests that individuals are influenced …
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Investigating the Roles of Time Perspective and Emerging Adulthood in Predicting Driving Behavior
… of crashes attributable to the combination of driving inexperience and risky behaviors creates the necessity to identify predictors of crash likelihoods. While there are known personality variables that predict risky driving, time perspective as an additional one was suggested. Time perspective …
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Identifying Functional Relationships in Driver Risk Taking: An Intelligent Transportation Assessment of Problem Behavior and Driving Style
… the occurrence or non-occurrence of a) critical behaviors during consecutive 15 second intervals of a driving trial, and b) the safe alternative when a safe behavior opportunity was available. Methods of data coding were assessed for practical use, reliability, and sensitivity to variation in …
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Informing Design of In-Vehicle Augmented Reality Head-Up Displays and Methods for Assessment
… but focused visual input to make decisions. Most driving information comes from the surrounding environment so keeping drivers' eyes on the road is paramount. However, important information still comes from in-vehicle displays. With this in mind, there has been renewed recent interest in …
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Self-Management for Safety: Impact of Self-Monitoring versus Objective Feedback
Altering driver's goals and motives for at-risk driving is likely to reduce the frequency of at-risk driving behaviors and their associated crashes and injuries. However, most driving occurs when people are alone with little supervisions or accountability. Thus, a self-management for safety (SMS) …
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The effects of aging and cognitive decrements on simulated driving performance
… declines in the skills that support safe driving, thus pose a hazard to themselves and to other road users. There seems to be agreement that older adults should stop driving when their skills have declined to the point that they pose a risk to themselves and others, but there are few …
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Surrogate Analysis and Calibration of Safety-Related Driver Behavior Modeling in Microscopic Traffic Simulation and Driving Simulator for Aggressive Driving
… However, it is apparent that understanding the driving behaviors on the roadway network and implementing roadway configurations accordingly is one of the great solutions. Therefore, the modeling of driving behavior would be the focus of this two-part thesis. Chapter two of this thesis will …
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Advancing Large-Scale Traffic Safety Analysis with Sociodemographic and High-Resolution Probe Data
… allowing for the identification of risky driving behaviors beyond what historical crash data alone can provide. This dissertation aims to explore the application of HRPD and detailed sociodemographic data in the development of quantitative metrics to assess and address the disproportionate …
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Exploratory Study of Distracted Behaviors of Transit Operators
Bus transit driving is an occupation that requires high concentration in driving and is demanding due to work overload, time pressure, and responsibility for lives. In 2006, there were 103 fatal crashes involving transit buses. As the number of distraction-related crashes increases, it is important …
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Emotional Impacts on Driver Behavior: An Emo-Psychophysical Car-Following Model
… that there are patterns in the distribution of driving behaviors; (4) the finding that driving states can result in different driving actions and that the same driving action can be the result of multiple driving states; (5) the finding that the performance of car-following models can be …
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Threat Assessment and Proactive Decision-Making for Crash Avoidance in Autonomous Vehicles
… movements due to inherent uncertainty in their behaviors. Moreover, different driver behaviors pose different kinds of threats. Various driver behavior predictive models have been proposed in the literature for motion prediction. However, these models cannot be trusted entirely due to the human …
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Identify Mind Wandering Behind the Wheel
… on behavior and performance in a simulated driving task. Participants performed a car-following task in a simulated low-traffic driving environment, and were asked to press a button mounted on the steering wheel any time they found themselves “zoning out”. Driving performance metrics and …
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Incident-Related Travel Time Estimation Using a Cellular Automata Model
… to attain the goal. The model incorporated driving behaviors on the freeway with the presence of on-ramps, off-ramps, shoulder lanes, bottlenecks and incidents. The study area was a 16 mile eastbound section of I-66 between US-29 and I-495 in northern Virginia. The data for this study …
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Study of car-bicycle safety at signalized intersections from multi-aspects
… accident causes of accidents. Naturalistic Driving Observation (NDO) is a fast-growing method for traffic safety studies. Despite of many NDO studies, few have particularly investigated interactions between car drivers and bicyclists at signalized intersections. This thesis carries out a …
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Popular Television’s Health and Safety Message: What Has Changed in the Past Generation?
… Will et al. examining multiple health and safety behaviors including sexual activity, driving behaviors, intoxicating and unhealthy substance use, and violence depicted in the 1997/1998 primetime television season. Results of their research showed overall that primetime television promoted the …
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