State of Art on Infrastructure for Automated Vehicles: Research report summarizing the scientific knowledge, research projects, test sites, initiatives, and knowledge gaps regarding infrastructure for automated vehicles.

This state-of-the-art will review the scientific literature, completed and ongoing projects, testing facilities, and initiatives on the topic of automated vehicles and infrastructure. The purpose is to present the results of studies directly on this topic and studies and projects that are not directly related to this topic but which provide...

Advanced Driver Assistence Systems (ADAS) in rijopleiding en rijexamen

In Nederland is het ongevalsrisico voor beginnende automobilisten hoog. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems kunnen mogelijk bijdragen aan het verminderen van ongelukken onder beginnende bestuurders. Deze studie onderzocht de perceptie van leerling-bestuurders van Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) en Blind Spot Detection (BSD) en de introductie...

A critical assessment of methodologies for operations and safety evaluations of freeway turbulence

Turbulence in traffic is a commonly known phenomenon, but the exact characteristics of this phenomenon are not yet clear. It reflects individual changes in speed, headways, and lanes in the traffic stream. The currently used freeway design guidelines prescribe different measures for handling turbulence, such as sufficient ramp spacing, and...

When do drivers abort an overtaking maneuver 5 on two-lane rural roads

Overtaking on two-lane roads is a complex driving maneuver. Drivers who desire to overtake a lead vehicle need to evaluate the available gaps in the opposite direction and accept a sufficient gap to successfully complete the overtaking maneuver. However, often drivers realize that the gap they accepted is shorter than what they actually need to...

A crash prediction model for weaving sections in the Netherlands

Weaving is defined as the crossing of two streams travelling in the same direction along a significant section of the road without the assistance of traffic control devices. Merging and diverging vehicles need to make one or more lane-changes in a limited space and time, determined by the weaving section length. This situation creates intensive...

Passing behavior on two-lane roads in a real and in a simulated environment

Passing maneuvers allow faster drivers to continue driving at their own desired speeds without being delayed behind an impeding vehicle. On two lane rural roads, this requires from the passing driver to occupy the opposing lane. This has tremendous implications on safety and operation of two-lane roads. In the literature, several studies...

Safety of pedestrians and cyclists when interacting with self-driving vehicles: A case study of the WEpods (PPT)

Impact of distracting activities and drivers’ cognitive failures on driving performance

The rapid increase in the availability of smartphones and other infotainment devices, and their widespread use while driving, contributes significantly to car crash rates. Understanding of the impact of distracting activities on drivers’ behavior is essential in order to support the development of effective technology and policy solutions to...

Critical assessment of methodologies for operations and safety evaluations of freeway turbulence

Turbulence in traffic is a commonly known phenomenon, but the exact characteristics of this phenomenon are not yet clear. Turbulence reflects individual changes in speed, headways, and lanes in the traffic stream. The current freeway design guidelines prescribe measures for handling turbulence, such as sufficient ramp spacing and spacing...

Effect of passing zone length on operation and safety of two-lane rural highways in Uganda

This paper presents a methodology to assess the effect of the length of passing zone on the operation and safety of two-lane rural highways based on the probability and the rate of passing maneuvers ending in a no-passing zone. The methodology was applied using observed passing maneuver data collected with tripod-mounted camcorders at passing...

Passing behavior on two-lane roads in real and simulated environments

Passing maneuvers allow faster drivers to continue driving at their desired speeds without being delayed behind impeding vehicles. On two-lane rural roads, such maneuvers require the passing driver to occupy the opposing lane; this condition has tremendous implications for the safety and operation of two-lane roads. Several studies have...

Effects of automated driving on traffic flow efficiency: Challenges and recent developments

Safety analysis of passing maneuvers using extreme value theory

The increased availability of detailed trajectory data sets from naturalistic, observational and simulation-based studies are a key source for potential improvements in the development of detailed safety models that explicitly account for vehicle conflict interactions and the various driving maneuvers. Despite the well-recognized research...

Impact of distracting activities and drivers' cognitive failures on driving performance

The rapid increase in the availability of smart phones and other infotainment devices, and their widespread use while driving, contributes significantly to car crash rates. This is since the human brain has limited capacity and cannot perform two tasks at the same time, but rather switches from one to another rapidly. Understanding of the impact...

A multi-faceted approach for assessing the safety of Israeli Arab children in their travel to and from school

Road crashes are considered as one of the main threats to human life around the world. Children pedestrians are most at risk to be seriously injured in road crashes, in particular, those from economically disadvantaged communities. Various factors contribute to their high involvement in road crashes. Some of these factors are related to the...

Driving exposure of Israeli young male drivers within a graduated driver licensing system