Title Planning and Design of the Software and Hardware of a Driving Simulator Applied to the Development of an ITS Experimental Platform (1/4)
Dept IOT
Year 2005
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Summary Published in March 2005
  The number of motor vehicles has been growing rapidly in Taiwan, and traffic conditions have become more complex than before.  The development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) using high technology of computers and communications to enhance traveler safety and efficiency is proliferating worldwide.  Compared to the testing of vehicles on the road, driving simulators (DS) have many advantages.  They are safer, less cost, and allow for the control and replication of experiment situations.  Hence, a DS is a useful and economical tool commonly employed to explore driver behaviors in relation to ITS technologies and to different driver, vehicle, road, and environmental situations.  One of the major purposes of this study is to apply the DS developed by the Institute of Transportation, Ministry of Transportation and Communications (IOT-DS) to establish a driver safety and workload evaluation system with respect to traffic control devices, lighting conditions, weather conditions, driver sight distance, lane width, advanced traveler information systems, electronic payment systems, and advanced vehicle control and safety systems.  In addition, this study evaluates the existing IOT-DS to determine research requirements and possible expansion of the IOT-DS software and hardware.  Furthermore, after establishing a driver safety and workload evaluation system, this study creates three sub-systems based on the evaluation system to assess driver safety and workload in applying ITS, in-vehicle and traffic control devices, respectively.  From the results of the DS experiments for these three sub-systems, this study assesses and tests the procedures and contents of the evaluation system.  This study also builds a driver behavioral database from numerous DS experiments, and performs statistical data analysis using the database.
Post date 2005/10/05
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