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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"distracted driving"”.
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The legal and technical landscape of distracted driving
In the year 2016, distracted driving contributed to 9% of fatal crashes, killing 3,450 people in the United States. While non-technological distractions are a significant concern, this thesis focuses on technological activities that have a unique technology-based risk of distraction as well as …
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Distracted driving detection: video analytics pipeline with adaptive driver feature extraction
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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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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Enhancing Road Safety through Machine Learning for Prediction of Unsafe Driving Behaviors
… and 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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Driver Response to Dynamic Message Sign Safety Campaign Messages
Unsafe driving habits increase the severity of roadway accidents. The behaviors that are generally associated with unsafe driving are influenced by drivers and their decision to engage in dangerous habits. In order to solve this problem, Departments of Transportation use roadside safety campaigns. …
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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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Why the Chinese obey the law : case studies from transportation
… laws and regulations from public disturbance to distracted driving and explores which set of evaluations determine legitimacy. The results show that morality is the most important motivation, that the severity of punishment is more influential than the perceived risk of apprehension, and that …
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Utilizing the Social Norms Theory for Mitigating Teen Driver Distraction
… for teens, that significantly influence their driving behaviours, including distracted driving. There has been a growing interest in using interventions based on the Social Norms Theory to change negative behaviours. According to this theory, individuals choose to engage in a particular …
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Analysis of crash and survey data to identify young drivers' distractions in Kansas
… when compared to other age group drivers. Distracted driving is one of the major causes of traffic crashes by young drivers. The objective of this study was to assess the hazards of distracted driving among teenage (15–20 year old) and young-adult (21–26 year old) drivers in Kansas. This …
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Effectiveness of Saskatchewan Government Insurance 2014 Traffic Safety Initiatives on Reducing Casualties
… traffic collisions in the province: impaired driving, distracted driving, excessive speed, intersection safety, and wildlife collisions. The Committee was also charged to make recommendations highlighting education and public awareness issues related to traffic safety. In 2013, the Special …
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Fixation Patterns of Driving Scenes as a Function of Task Load and Task Goal
<p>Distracted driving has been a heavily researched area, and the negative impacts it has on driving performance is well known. Eye movement patterns of distracted drivers have also been studied, though insight into what the driver specifically looks at is not as well known. Researchers have …
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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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Development and Testing Of The iCACC Intersection Controller For Automated Vehicles
… Along with the goal of eliminating human distracted driving and increasing vehicle automation, it is necessary to develop novel intersection control strategies. Accordingly, the research presented in this dissertation develops an innovative system that controls the movement of vehicles …
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Examining the Effect of Driving Experience on Teenage Driving Ability with Secondary Tasks
… examined the relationship between experience and driving performance with secondary tasks. Data were collected from 42 teenage drivers and their parents using an instrumented vehicle for two one hour test track sessions spaced 12 months apart. For part of the sessions, participants followed a lead …
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A Risk Based Approach to Intelligent Transportation Systems Security
… the transportation network. • Third, I evaluate distracted driving under different scenarios to assess the in-depth impact of an adversarial attack on the transportation network. To this extent, this dissertation examines factors that are contributing to the manual, visual, and cognitive …
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Assessing the Effects of Driving Inattention on Relative Crash Risk
… to conduct unobtrusive large-scale naturalistic driving studies as the costs and size of computer equipment and sensor technology have both dramatically decreased. A large-scale naturalistic driving study was conducted using 100 instrumented vehicles (80 privately-owned and 20 leased vehicles). …
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Essays in applied econometrics
… the impact of using mobile phone devices while driving. This political debate is partially motivated by the lack of clear empirical evidence on the relationship between cell phone use, bans and driving performance. Our results show that States that enacted primary cell phone bans experienced a …