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In-vehicle device acquisition and usage in personal vehicles : commercial versus non-commercial driver's license holders
(Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, 2011-03-28)
A survey was administered to 1,524 Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students and Blacksburg Transit drivers in an effort to differentiate between commercial driver's license holders (72 of the respondents) and "regular" ...
Applicability of mesopic factors to the driving task
(SAGE, 2016-02-01)
With the advent of light-emitting diode technology being applied to roadway lighting, the spectral power distribution of the light source is becoming much more important. In this experiment, the detection of pedestrians ...
Modernizing bridge safety inspection with process improvement and digital assistance
(Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research, 2004-01)
This research effort was developed to record and analyze the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) bridge/structure inspection processes as an aid to modernizing and automating these inspection processes through the ...
Problematic Roadway Environments for Automated Vehicles
(National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence, 2018-04-03)
Progress in the area of automated vehicles (AVs) will benefit safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability. Of the roughly 30,000 traffic-related fatalities reported yearly, 94% are due to human error. AVs replace ...
An Assessment of Quiet Vehicles and Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety
(2014-07-28)
The primary intent of this report is to provide a comprehensive and concise overview of the apparent safety issues presented to pedestrians and pedalcyclists by the operation of quiet vehicles on roadways. The report ...
Virginia Connected Vehicle Test Bed System Performance (V2I System Performance)
(Connected Vehicle/Infrastructure University Transportation Center (CVI-UTC), 2016-05-01)
This project identified vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication system limitations on the Northern Virginia Connected Vehicle Test Bed. Real-world historical data were analyzed to determine wireless Dedicated Short ...
Improving Driving Safety for Teenagers with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
(National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence, 2017-09-19)
The majority of the research assessing the differences in driving performance between medicated and non-medicated Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) teenagers has relied on driving simulators and surveys. This ...
Applications of Connected Vehicle Infrastructure Technologies to Enhance Transit Service Efficiency and Safety, Part 1
(Connected Vehicle/Infrastructure University Transportation Center (CVI-UTC), 2016-09-30)
Implementing Connected Vehicle Infrastructure (CVI) applications for handheld devices into public transportation transit systems would provide transit agencies and their users with two-directional information flow from ...
An On-Road Evaluation of the Impact of Explicit and Implicit Cognitive Training Protocols on Safety-Related Senior Driver Behaviors
(National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence (NSTSCE), 2017-04-21)
This study presents a long-term examination of the effects of two types of perceptual-cognitive brain training programs on senior driver behavior and on-road driving performance. Seniors over the age of 69 engaged in either ...
Effects of In-Vehicle Information Systems (IVIS) Tasks on the Information Processing Demands of a Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO) Driver
(Virginia Tech, 1999-12-10)
This study was performed with two main goals in mind. The first goal was to understand and predict "red-lines" and "yellow-lines" in terms of what the CVO driver can process without hindering the primary task of driving. ...