Title

Driving Simulators Application To Left Turn Gap Acceptance

Keywords

Age difference; Driving Simulators; Gender difference; Left tom gap acceptance; Sight distance

Abstract

This paper documents the experimental design of testing and measuring gap acceptance of traffic turning left from a stopped control approach (Minor Road) at a non-signalized intersection. The main goal of this experiment is to test the feasibility of simulating conditions and turning maneuvers in a simulated environment using a driver simulator housed in the Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation (CATSS). The experiment included the selection of the appropriate scenario within the provided database and generating the traffic stream that would produce gaps in the traffic stream of the major road of varying sizes. The experiment included subjects of different gender and age. It also incorporated two speed limits on the major road. The use of a modem advanced driving simulator for human factors research has many advantages over similar real world or on-road driving research. These advantages include experimental control, efficiency, expense, safety, and ease of data collection. This simulator experiment plan is to analyze the sight distance and critical gap acceptances for left turn from the minor road at the stop controlled intersection.

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Publication Title

Simulation Series

Volume

35

Issue

3

Number of Pages

590-595

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84907442977 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84907442977

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