Title

Light truck vehicles (LTVs) contribution to rear-end collisions

Authors

Authors

R. Harb; E. Radwan; X. Yan;M. Abdel-Aty

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Accid. Anal. Prev.

Keywords

light truck vehicle (LTV); rear-end collision; horizontal visibility; blockage; driving simulator; brake response time; deceleration rate; DRIVING SIMULATOR; HEADWAY; Ergonomics; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Social; Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Transportation

Abstract

Light truck vehicles (LTVs), comprising light-duty trucks, vans, and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) drive higher and wider than passenger cars which could affect the visibility for the following passenger car driver. This paper investigates the contribution of LTVs to rear-end collisions resulting from horizontal visibility blockage using the University of Central Florida sophisticated reconfigurable driving simulator. Indeed, a sudden stop of a leading LTV, in the shadow of the blindness of the succeeding passenger car driver, may deprive the latter of a sufficient response time, which may lead to high probability of a rear-end collision. To investigate this issue, two scenarios were developed in the UCF driving simulator. The first scenario serves as a base scenario where the simulator car follows a passenger car, and the second scenario serves as a test scenario, where the simulator car follows an LTV. The results obtained by comparing the scenarios showed that LTVs produce more rear-end collisions at unsignalized intersections due to horizontal visibility blockage and due to the resulting drivers' behavior when driving behind an LTV. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volume

39

Issue/Number

5

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1026

Last Page

1036

WOS Identifier

WOS:000250177200019

ISSN

0001-4575

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