Title

Light Truck Vehicles (Ltvs) Contribution To Rear-End Collisions

Keywords

Brake response time; Deceleration rate; Driving simulator; Horizontal visibility blockage; Light truck vehicle (LTV); Rear-end collision

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. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

9-1-2007

Publication Title

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volume

39

Issue

5

Number of Pages

1026-1036

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2007.01.007

Socpus ID

34548482709 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/34548482709

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