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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"older drivers"”.
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Identification of risk factors for crashes involving older drivers
… characteristics on the involvement of the older drivers in motor vehicle crashes. Examples of potential factors influencing older driver crashes include intersection/roadway geometrics, type of traffic control, traffic signal phasing, light conditions. A methodology is developed to model …
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Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Older Drivers – Mobility, Perception, and Safety
… abilities that may impact driving safety. As older drivers become more self-aware of these functional deficits, they have the tendency to engage in self-regulation practices, such as less driving and avoiding challenging driving situations. This tendency may gradually evolve to give up driving …
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Evaluating Factors Contributing to Crash Severity Among Older Drivers: Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning Approaches
… road crash severity, with a special focus on older drivers and the unique challenges introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing a dataset from Virginia, USA, the research integrates advanced statistical methods and machine learning techniques to dissect this critical issue from multiple …
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Avoidance Behavior in the Elderly Driver
Do older drivers modify their driving habits in response to functional impairment? Older drivers who avoid challenging driving situations were compared with non-avoiders, to determine whether functional limitations were related to avoidance and whether avoidance is related to reducing crash risk. …
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Factors influencing driving in older age : an application of the theory of planned behaviour
… and decisions to continue or ceased riving in older age. Some older drivers may be unsafe to drive (Drachman & Swearer, 1993), but are unwilling to cease, this can result in referrals to mental health services. The potential influence of attitudes towards driving on driving behaviour has been …
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Effects of Age-Related Declines in Visual Motion Processing on Older Driver Safety
… declines 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 …
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Individual and group differences in driving behaviour
… and inefficient coping strategies. Younger drivers and female drivers reported higher levels of stress. Young male drivers assessed their personal risk and driving abilities less realistically than did other age and sex groups. Driving simulator-based methods reported in chapter 4 revealed …
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An Examination of Driver Performance Under Reduced Visibility Conditions When Using An In-Vehicle Signing Information System (ISIS)
… provide navigation and advisory information to drivers while they are driving. One aspect of these systems, In-vehicle Signing Information Systems (ISIS), would provide the warning, regulatory, and advisory information that is currently found on road signs. These systems may be of particular …
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On-Road Investigation of Fluorescent Sign Colors to Improve Conspicuity
… purple sign is least preferred by both older and younger drivers when compared to the other sign color combinations employed in this study.*Both younger and older drivers have a preference for a black on fluorescent yellow-green sign.* Fewer late braking maneuvers and fewer turn errors …
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An Examination of the General Mobility of Older Adults Based on Late-Life Depression and Its Treatment
<p>Older adults experience a variety of cognitive and physical declines as they age. Consequently, these changes can impact mobility and mental health (i.e., depression). Studies have suggested a relationship between driving habits changes (in particular, driving cessation) and depression (Fonda, …
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Driver Response to Simulated Intersections: An Analysis of Workload-Related Variables
… The responses suggest greater workloads for older drivers and female drivers. In addition to age and gender, a number of driver information processing characteristics were measured. Stepwise regressions indicated that performance decrements to the simulated driving situations could best be …
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Driver injury severity at u.s. highway-rail crossings
… Based on the model study, it is found that older drivers are more susceptible than younger drivers to cause an increase in severity, an increase in severity under bad weather condition, and improving highway pavement will significantly reduce driver injury severity at passive control …
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Aging and the Effects of Conversation With a Passenger of a Caller on Simulated Driving Performance
… that conversation has on driving performance of older and younger drivers. In addition, the effects that the location of the conversation partner has on driving performance are also being explored. Furthermore, the quality and accuracy of the speech task were investigated as well as the extent of …
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The Effects of Cognitive Executive Load on Driving Crashes and Near-Crashes
… increase crash risk, especially for young and older drivers. Naturalistic driving data were examined to determine if secondary tasks with increasing cognitive executive demand would result in increasing crash risk. Data were extracted from the Second Strategic Highway Research Program …
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Characterizing the effects of videophone conversations on younger and older driver performance
… freeway and intersection driving for younger and older drivers. Pairs of younger and older adult drivers completed highway and intersection driving assessments in each of four conditions: driving alone without distraction, conversing with an in-car passenger, conversing with a remote cell phone …
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Driving confidence and in-vehicle telematics : a study of technology adoption patterns of the 50+ driving population
… population, the nature of self-regulation among drivers in this age cohort, and the role that in-vehicle telematics can play in increasing confidence of older drivers. The objective of this thesis is to present the findings of a consumer perception survey in the context of the evolving dialogue …
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Why the Chinese obey the law : case studies from transportation
… motivation, that legitimacy influences younger drivers while safety influences older drivers, and that there is a social norms gap between distracted driving laws and conventionally studied traffic laws. The third paper examines compliance with the Shanghai license plate auction policy. The …
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Development and Evaluation of an Assistive In-Vehicle System for Responding to Anxiety in Smart Vehicles
… group analysis incorporating both young and older drivers, aiming to distill anxiety-inducing scenarios in automated driving and pinpoint potential intervention strategies and feedback modalities. This was followed by two driving simulator evaluations. The third study was observational, …
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Effects of instrument panel luminance and hue on simulator driving performance and driver preferences
… experiment by subjects representative of the older and younger segments of the driver population. Each of two groups of drivers determined one brightness level that was subjectively equal among the eight hues. For each word presented, six reading and driving performance measures were taken. …
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