Personalised feedback and eco-driving: An explorative study

Conventional road transport has negative impact on the environment. Stimulating eco-driving through feedback to the driver about his/her energy conservation performance has the potential to reduce CO<inf>2</inf> emissions and promote fuel cost savings. Not all drivers respond well to the same type of feedback. Research has shown that different...

Drowsy drivers' under-performance in lateral control: How much is too much? Using an integrated measure of lateral control to quantify safe lateral driving

Internationally, drowsy driving is associated with around 20% of all crashes. Despite the development of different detection methods, driver drowsiness remains a disconcerting public health issue. Detection methods can estimate drowsiness by directly measuring the physiology of the driver, or they can measure the effect that drowsiness has on...

Measuring being lost in thought: An exploratory driving simulator study

In driver behaviour research there is considerable focus on distraction caused by specific external systems, such as navigation systems or mobile telephones. However, it is not clear whether self-paced actions such as daydreaming have the same negative effects on driving behaviour. In a driving simulator study, the effects of an internal...

Linking behavioural indicators to safey: What is safe and what is not?

Modelopzet voor Dodehoek Detectie en Signalerings Systemen (DDSS)

Connekt performs the current research for the Ministry of Transport in which an inventory is made of the blind spot situation (and the interaction between traffic participants) and the possibilities of detection and signaling are defined. The main purpose of this research is the gathering of knowledge. Knowledge about the behavioral component of...

The environment: Roadway design, environmental factors and conflicts

Adaptive interfaces in driving

The automotive domain is an excellent domain for investigating augmented cognition methods, and one of the domains that can provide the applications. We developed, applied and tested indirect (or derived) measures to estimate driver state risks, validated by direct state-sensing methods, with major European vehicle manufacturers, suppliers and...

Herkenbaarheid van categorieovergangen in infrastructuurontwerp: Literatuurstudie naar richtlijnen en kennis ten aanzien van categorieovergangen, met name op kruispunten

The recognizability of roads, the predictability of their course and road user behaviour is an important Sustainable Safety principle. Road users need to know which driving behaviour they are expected to show and what they can expect of other road users. The required driving behaviour and the correct expectations can only be elicited when the...

Review of European studies on in-vehicle alcohol impairment detection technology

Daytime running lights: Costs or benefits?

The present study deals with the possibility that road users in the vicinity of a vehicle with daytime running lights (DRL) would suffer from a decreased conspicuity because of (he presence of that vehicle. In an experiment the primary effects of DRL on the conspicuity of other road users were investigated, with particular attention to other...

Impact of cruise control on traffic safety, energy consumption and environmental pollution: final report

In this subproject, the impact of Cruise Control (CC) was analysed with respect to traffic safety, energy consumption, and environmental pollution. In order to work on this topic from a European perspective, a team of European experts in the fields of driver assistance systems, human factors, engineering and road safety contributed. The...

Detecting drowsiness of drivers with a deterministic hypovigilance diagnosis module

Daytime running lights: Deliverable 3: Final Report

According to this report released by the European Commission, the implementation of daytime running lights could save 1,000 to 3,000 lives each year, which translates into a reduction in Europe’s annual roadway fatality rate of between 2.5 to 7.5%.

Longitudinal and lateral stop-and-go support: System design and behavioural evaluation

CONCLUSIONS The set of longitudinal and lateral control systems is sufficient for most of the requirements of behavioural studies. Software modelling and simulation proved to be safe, effective and efficient in the design and implementation process. The behavioural experiment showed that for most conditions the longitudinal controller yielded...