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Reducing School Bus/Light-Vehicle Conflicts Through Connected Vehicle Communications

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dc.contributor.authorPalframan, Kelly Donoghueen
dc.contributor.authorAlden, Andrew S.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-27T17:58:28Zen
dc.date.available2016-10-27T17:58:28Zen
dc.date.issued2016-08-15en
dc.description.abstractThis project aimed to develop and test a concept for improving the safety of school bus transportation using connected vehicle technology. The project consisted of three key steps that led to a final road study: 1) conducting focus groups with light vehicle drivers and school bus drivers to determine what type of in-vehicle school-bus related information they would like to receive/send; 2) developing a concept of operations to accommodate driver desires; and 3) evaluating the effect of an in-vehicle message that warns of a stopped school bus ahead. In the road study, researchers evaluated each driver’s response through analysis of vehicle kinematics (speed, longitudinal acceleration, and jerk) when a bus was staged either beyond a “School Bus Stop Ahead” roadside sign or beyond the point at which a similar in-vehicle message was presented. Driver responses for each condition were compared to a baseline condition that described their driving behavior when no bus was present on the roadway. The results showed a nearly immediate response to in-vehicle messages, whereas the corresponding roadside sign messages provided little evidence of modifying driver behavior prior to visually observing a stopped school bus in the roadway.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/73332en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherConnected Vehicle/Infrastructure University Transportation Center (CVI-UTC)en
dc.rightsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/en
dc.subjecthuman factorsen
dc.subjecttransportation safetyen
dc.subjectconnected vehiclesen
dc.subjectschool bus safetyen
dc.titleReducing School Bus/Light-Vehicle Conflicts Through Connected Vehicle Communicationsen
dc.typeReporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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