Overload depending on driving experience and situation complexity: Which strategies faced with a pedestrian crossing?

Subjective workload and performance of young drivers faced to unexpected pedestrian crossings

Introduction: The aim of the present study is to identify which of subjective workload dimensions are influenced by driving experience and situation complexity, and which ones influence driving performance. Method: Fifty-seven young drivers (15 traditionally trained novices, 12 earlytrained novices, 15 with three years of experience and 15 with at least five years of experience) were randomly a...

A Study of Pedestrian Movement on Crosswalks Based on Chaos Theory

Walking, as an important transportation mode, plays a large part in urban transportation systems. This mode is of great importance for planners and decision-makers because of its impact on environmental and health aspects of communities. However, this mode is so complex in nature that makes it difficult to study or model. On the other hand, chaos theory studies complex dynamical nonlinear syste...

The hazards of pedestrian mobile-phone use when crossing signalized intersections, Iran (2017); an observational study

Background: Distracted walking is a major cause of pedestrian fatalities. Along with the expansion and popularity of mobile phones, their impacts on pedestrian safety, especially when crossing urban intersections have attracted a lot of attention. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of mobile-phone use on pedestrians’ crossing behavior when passing signalized intersections. Ma...

Mental workload and driving

The aim of this review is to identify the most representative measures of subjective and objective mental workload in driving, and to understand how the subjective and objective levels of mental workload influence the performance as a function of situation complexity and driving experience, i.e., to verify whether the increase of situation complexity and the lack of experience increase the subj...

Does driving experience delay overload threshold as a function of situation complexity?