An Investigation of Collision Avoidance Warnings on Brake Response Times of Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers

The goal of this experiment was to determine what if any effect two different types of warnings have the brake reaction time of distracted commercial motor vehicle operators. The warning conditions were: No Warning, Auditory Tire Skid Warning, and One Second Brake Pulse Warning. Each participant was distracted via a distracter task during the experiment. As the participants were distracted, an obstacle was launched out into their forward path. Each participant received his/her appropriate warning, according to what condition they were placed, when the obstacle entered their headway. It was determined that the Auditory Tire Skid Warning aided in decreasing the movement times, while the One Second Brake Pulse Warning aided in decreasing the number of collisions with the barrels and speed at contact with the barrels.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1999

Author dc:creator

• Shutko, John

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Dingus, Thomas A.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Barfield, Woodrow S.
• Williges, Robert C.

• Emergency Braking
• Distracted Drivers
• Brake Response Time
• Collision Avoidance Warnings

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-04132001-152251

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/31703