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Development of Human Factors Guidelines for ATIS and CVO Identify Strengths and Weaknesses of Alternative Information Display Formats
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 1993-10)This report is one of a series produced as part of a contract designed to develop precise, detailed, human factors design guidelines for Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) and Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO). ... -
TravTek Evaluation Task C3 - Camera Car Study
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 1995-06)The goal of the TravTek Camera Car Study was to furnish a detailed evaluation of driving and navigation performance, system usability, and safety for the TravTek system. To achieve this goal, an instrumented "camera car" ... -
Development of Human Factors Guidelines for Advanced Traveler Information Systems and Commercial Vehicle Operations: Literature Review
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 1996-11)The purpose of Task A was to conduct a literature review of human factors-applicable articles associated with Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) and ATIS-related commercial vehicle operations (CVO) systems. ... -
Development of Human Factors Guidelines for Advanced Traveler Information Systems and Commercial Vehicle Operations: Display Channels
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 1999-12)Three experiments were conducted in a driving simulator to evaluate effects of in-vehicle message modality and message format on comprehension and memory for younger and older drivers. Visual icons and text messages were ... -
Development of Human Factors Guidelines for Advanced Traveler Information Systems and Commercial Vehicle Operations: ATIS Function Transitions
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 1999-12)The objective of the first experiment reported below was to measure the cognitive demands associated with transitioning across Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) functions. This required the development of both ... -
Phoenix Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiative Evaluation Report
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2000-04)This report presents the evaluation results of the Phoenix, Arizona Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiative (MMDI). The MMDI was a three-year program of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office ... -
Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiative San Antonio Evaluation Report
(United States. Department of Transportation, 2000-05)This report presents the evaluation results of the San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiative (MMDI). The MMDI was sponsored by the US Department of Transportation and focused on aggressive deployment of ... -
Impact of Sleeper Berth Usage on Driver Fatigue, Final Project Report
(United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 2002)The goal of this project was to assess the impact that sleeper berth usage has on operator alertness. Forty-seven males and nine females participated in this study, constituting 13 teams and 30 single drivers. All drivers ... -
Field and Modeling Framework and Case Study of Truck Weigh Station Operations: Final report
(Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, 2002-01)Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) systems improve the capacity of weigh station operations significantly by screening trucks while traveling at high speeds and only requiring trucks within a threshold of a maximum permissible gross ... -
Task 1 Report for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Identification and trade study analysis of alternative rear signaling systems
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2002-03)Rear-end crashes are the most frequently occurring type of collision, accounting for approximately 29% of all crashes and resulting in a substantial number of injuries and fatalities each year. Rear-end collisions in which ... -
Case study evaluation of the Virginia Department of Transportation's I-81 ITS program
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2002-03-15)The primary goal of this report is to provide information to the Sponsors, Policy Committee, and Management of the I-81 ITS Program that may improve the Program. In order to do this, the report focuses on the development ... -
Historical Development of the Travel Shenandoah Pilot Service
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2002-05)The purpose of this report is to document the historical development of the Travel Shenandoah pilot project. This report will not attempt to describe in detail the entire five-year history; rather it will focus on the major ... -
I-81 ITS Program Evaluation Plan
(United States. Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2003-07)This document presents the evaluation framework that the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) has prepared for Phase II of the Virginia Department of Transportation's (VDOT) I-81 ITS Model Safety Corridor Program, ... -
Light Vehicle-Heavy Vehicle Interactions: A Preliminary Assessment Using Critical Incident Analysis
(United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 2004-05)Two recently completed on-road, in situ data collection efforts provided a large data set in which to conduct an examination of near-crashes and crashes (critical incidents) that occurred between light vehicles (LV) and ... -
Enhanced Night Visibility Series, Volume XIII Phase III - Study 1: Evaluation of Discomfort Glare During Nighttime Driving in Clear Weather
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2005)Phase III-- Study 1 was performed to further explore findings on far infrared (FIR) systems from Phase II, to investigate near infrared (NIR) and high intensity discharge (HID) technologies, and to investigate detection ... -
Enhanced Night Visibility Series, Volume III: Phase II - Study 1: Visual Performance During Nighttime Driving in Clear Weather
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2005-12)Phase II-- Study 1 was performed as a stepping stone to expand the knowledge of how different vision enhancement systems can affect detection and recognition of different types of objects. The empirical testing for this ... -
Enhanced Night Visibility Series, Volume II: Overview of Phase I and Development of Phase II Experimental Plan
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2005-12)The focus of the Phase I effort was on the establishment of performance and design objectives to facilitate the deployment of ultraviolet A (UV-A) headlamps. This report describes the plan to develop UV-A headlamp ... -
Enhanced Night Visibility Series, Volume XII: Overview of Phase II and Development of Phase III Experimental Plan
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2005-12)This volume provides an overview of the six studies that compose Phase II of the Enhanced Night Visibility project and the experimental plan for its third and final portion, Phase III. The Phase II studies evaluated up to ... -
Enhanced Night Visibility Series, Volume VII: Phase II—Study 5: Evaluation of Discomfort Glare During Nighttime Driving in Clear Weather
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2005-12)Phase II—Study 5 helped expand the knowledge of how current vision enhancement systems (VESs) affect the discomfort glare experienced by nighttime drivers. The empirical testing for this study was performed on the Smart ... -
Enhanced Night Visibility Series, Volume IV: Phase II - Study 2: Visual Performance During Nighttime Driving in Rain
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2005-12)Phase II, Study 2 (rainy weather) was performed following the same procedures used for Study 1 (clear weather). Study 2 helped expand the knowledge of how current vision enhancement systems can affect detection and recognition ...
