Experienced and Novice Driver Situation Awareness at Rail Level Crossings: An Exploratory On-Road Study

An on-road network analysis-based approach to studying driver situation awareness at rail level crossings

Accident Analysis & Prevention ◽

10.1016/j.aap.2012.09.012 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 58 ◽

pp. 195-205 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Paul M. Salmon ◽

Michael G. Lenné ◽

Kristie L. Young ◽

Guy H. Walker

Keyword(s):

Network Analysis ◽

Situation Awareness ◽

Road Network ◽

Level Crossings

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Analysis of Gaze Behavior to Measure Cognitive Distraction in Real-World Driving

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/1541931218621441 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 1944-1948 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Shiyan Yang ◽

Jonny Kuo ◽

Michael G. Lenné

Keyword(s):

Situation Awareness ◽

Route Planning ◽

Gaze Behavior ◽

Test Drive ◽

Secondary Tasks ◽

Cognitive Distraction ◽

Driver Monitoring ◽

In The Wild ◽

And Control ◽

Road Study

Cognitive distraction can impair drivers’ situation awareness and control performance in driving. An on-road study was conducted to examine the efficacy in the detection of driver cognitive distraction based on the driver monitoring system developed by Seeing Machines. Participants completed a 25-km test drive on the local public roads whilst engaging in a series of secondary tasks that were designed to trigger different types of cognitive distraction, such as conversation, comprehension, N-back, and route-planning tasks. The findings showed that percent road center (PRC), one of the promising gaze metrics, increased significantly with cognitive distraction when compared to baseline, but failed to distinguish between different forms of cognitive distraction Moreover, PRC’s sensitivity to cognitive distraction was found to be affected by the chosen radius of road center area. These findings of driver cognitive distraction measurement provide data-driven suggestions for the development of real-time driver monitoring systems in the wild.

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Situation Awareness Fast-Tracking, Including Identifying Escape Routes (SAFER): Evaluation of the Impact of SAFER on Learner Driver Situation Awareness Skills

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.1177/0361198118759950 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2672 (33) ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Bridie Scott-Parker ◽

Leigh Wilks ◽

Bonnie Huang

Keyword(s):

Situation Awareness ◽

Road Safety ◽

Novice Drivers ◽

Fast Tracking ◽

Graduated Driver Licensing ◽

Limited Support ◽

Novice Driver ◽

And Control ◽

The Impact ◽

Driver Licensing

Despite a plethora of education, engineering, and enforcement-related intervention, the pernicious problem that is young driver road safety remains of global interest. Compared with more experienced drivers, young novice drivers have been found to have deficits in situation awareness skills (SAS), which is an essential repertoire of knowledge and abilities in perceiving, comprehending, and appropriately responding to a breadth of driving risks (projection). Current practice requirements in Queensland, Australia, do not incorporate SAS-specific training for parents, the most common supervisor of novice drivers. This study evaluates the impact of SAFER, a SAS-acquisition acceleration “game” in which parents foster SAS in their child during the period before licensure, on novice driver SAS at learner licensure. Sixty parent–pre-learner dyads were recruited from the Sunshine Coast and randomly allocated to intervention ( n = 30) and control ( n = 29). Using a SAS-based coding taxonomy, SAS was measured via simulator-based verbal commentary protocol at learner licensure as part of a larger longitudinal project. Intervention learners exhibited significantly greater SAS (perception/comprehension/projection of breadth of driving risks), than control learners. Intervention learners exhibited significantly less perception, and considerably greater perception/comprehension/projection SAS than intervention parents. Currently, in Queensland’s licensing program there is limited support for parents/other supervisors of learner drivers, and no SAS-focused intervention is available. SAFER is an innovative SAS-acquisition acceleration intervention that has been shown to build SAS even before the young novice is licensed to drive. A larger state-wide pilot is in development to explore the merit of incorporating SAFER within Queensland’s graduated driver licensing program.

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