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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 ...
Driver Detention Times in Commercial Motor Vehicle Operations
(United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Office of Analysis, Research, and Technology, 2014-12)
The purpose of this project was to quantitatively identify detention times in the commercial motor vehicle (CMV) industry. Although there is currently no standard definition, the industry commonly defines detention time ...
Enhanced Night Visibility Series, Volume I: Executive Summary
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2005-12)
This volume, an executive summary of the Enhanced Night Visibility project, is the first of 18 volumes that report on the project's evaluation of the merit of implementing supplemental ultraviolet headlamps, supplemental ...
Contributing Factors to Run-off-road Crashes and Near-crashes
(United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2009-01)
The purpose of this investigation is to identify factors associated with run-off-road (ROR) crashes. Events from the 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study that constituted ROR crash or near-crash events were investigated to ...
Fatigue Assessment for the Failed Bridge Deck Closure Pour at Mile Marker 43 on I-81
(Virginia. Department of Transportation, 2014-04)
Fatigue of reinforcing steel in concrete bridge decks has not been identified as a common failure mode. Generally, the stress range occurring in reinforcing steel is below the fatigue threshold and infinite fatigue life ...
Synthesis of Literature and Operating Safety Practices Related to Cell Phone/Personal Data Assistant Use in Commercial Truck and Bus Operations (Technical Report)
(United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 2011-04)
There is an increasing awareness of the role of driver distraction in commercial motor vehicle crashes. This study presents the results of efforts to expand current knowledge of truck and motorcoach industry practices ...
Assessment of a Drowsy Driver Warning System for Heavy Vehicle Drivers: Final Report
(United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2008)
Drowsiness has a globally negative impact on performance, slowing reaction time, decreasing situational awareness, and impairing judgment. A field operational test of an early prototype Drowsy Driver Warning System was ...
Empirical Studies on Traffic Flow in Inclement Weather
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2006-10)
Weather causes a variety of impacts on the transportation system. While severe winter storms, hurricanes, or flooding can result in major stoppages or evacuations of transportation systems and cost millions of dollars, ...
Enhanced Camera/Video Imaging Systems (E-C/VISs) for Heavy Vehicles
(United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2011-06)
Tests were performed to determine the feasibility of developing an Enhanced Camera/Video Imaging System (Enhanced C/VIS or E-C/VIS) to provide heavy-vehicle drivers with better situation awareness to the sides and rear of ...
Human Aspects of Route Choice Behavior: Incorporating Perceptions, Learning Trends, Latent Classes, and Personality Traits in the Modeling of Driver Heterogeneity in Route Choice Behavior
(Virginia Tech, 2012-01)
Driver heterogeneity in travel behavior has repeatedly been cited in the literature as a limitation that needs to be addressed. In this work, driver heterogeneity is addressed from four different perspectives. First, driver ...