Modelling visual distraction effects on driver's perception and cognition

Bornard, Jean Charles; Bellet, Thierry; Mayenobe, Pierre; Gruyer, Dominique; Claverie, Bernard

doi:10.1504/ijhfms.2012.050072

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“…The majority of studies have been conducted in simulated environments with individuals who were not professional drivers (48)(49)(50). Yet, it is known that professional drivers, such as taxi drivers, demonstrate different strategies in cruise management (51).…”

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Traffic Safety Pyramid Based on Visual Navigation Distraction: A Naturalistic Study on App-Taxis

Zeydi,

Pouyakian,

Kamali

et al. 2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Evidence suggests that mobile phone navigation applications (MPNAs) may reduce road traffic safety by causing a visual distraction. This study aimed to (i) identify a list of road safety-related events (RSREs) that could occur while looking at the MPNA, (ii) examine the effect of app-taxFi drivers’ glances at MPNA on missing of RSREs, (iii) develop any potential new indicator in road traffic safety, and (iv) develop a pyramid of traffic incidents. This study investigated 36 app-taxi drivers in real road traffic circumstances. Data were collected by video recording using a double-lens camera. The events that occurred while the app-taxi driver was looking at the MPNA were extracted, recorded, and classified. A time span of less than one second and a new indicator, namely “seeing the event BEFORE visual distraction” (seBvd), were examined. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and non-parametric tests with a significance level of 0.05 in SPSS 18. A list of 23 events was identified. The most frequent event was “presence of pedestrians across the road” (including crossing the road and beside the road 36%). The number of glances at the MPNA had a significant correlation with time span ≤1 s ( p = 0.001, r < 0.6). The total time of looking at the MPNA had a significant correlation with time span >1 s ( p = 0.001, r < 0.6). A pyramid of traffic incidents was developed based on the results. The new seBvd indicator is a binary (positive; negative) surrogate safety measure that can be useful in evaluating the effect of visual distraction on road traffic safety. The introduced pyramid of traffic incidents seems useful in traffic safety.

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