Reducing School Bus/Light-Vehicle Conflicts Through Connected Vehicle Communications
| dc.contributor.author | Palframan, Kelly Donoghue | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Alden, Andrew S. | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-27T17:58:28Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2016-10-27T17:58:28Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-08-15 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This 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.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73332 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Connected Vehicle/Infrastructure University Transportation Center (CVI-UTC) | en |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | human factors | en |
| dc.subject | transportation safety | en |
| dc.subject | connected vehicles | en |
| dc.subject | school bus safety | en |
| dc.title | Reducing School Bus/Light-Vehicle Conflicts Through Connected Vehicle Communications | en |
| dc.type | Report | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |