Institute of Transportation, MOTC

The ANOVA result showed that elders had significant longer T1, but learning rate (φ) and workload (NASA-TXL) between elder and young people were not significantly different. Interestingly, the workload decreased with numbers of practices. Especially, the decreasing amplitude of workload of elders was bigger than younger. And the workload of female elders was much higher than others. Understanding the learning effect could be helpful to trainers in determining how to allocate training resources and/or schedule practices so as to optimize the training effectiveness. Notably, that of elders having longer finishing time should be taken into account while legislating regulation, designing vehicle, and any actions for safety considerations.