Driving instructors and novice drivers often remain sceptical about the realistic learning potential driving simulators offer to real world driving tasks. The aim of this experiment was to compare the effectiveness of training in the real system with an advanced driving simulator. The participants were required to learn a specific driving manoeuvre: reverse park a truck with an attached trailer...

The energy-efficient train control can effectively reduce energy consumption of railway network by optimizing driving strategy. This paper proposed a method for strategy two-stage allocation redundant running time. time-optimal requires shortest time while highest consumption. By time, be transferred to energy-optimal under the premise that arrives on In first stage, part is allocated long coas...

In psychophysical experiments, the influence of the presentation of visual stimuli on the loudness evaluation of sounds from traffic noise has been investigated. In a first experiment it was shown that the colour of the visual stimulus can influence loudness evaluation in such a way that – for same acoustic stimulus – the loudness of a red train can be rated 15 % higher than the loudness of a g...

alzheimer's disease (ad), a common and debilitating neurodegenerative disorder, affect more than 65 million individuals throughout the world. this disability plays a crucial role in daily activities such as driving. several studies have investigated the relationship between cognitive functions and driving safety. the current study revises the literature on the relation between road safety ...

In the past decade, significant progress has been made in autonomous driving, and many novel computer vision methods have been proposed for vision-based autonomous driving. To date, most of these systems can be categorized into two major paradigms: mediated perception approaches and behavior reflex approaches. Mediated perception approaches [7] involve multiple sub-components for recognizing dr...

The objective of this paper is to present and analyse results from a placebo-based case study concerning the importance of feedback in achieving continuous improvement of train driver motivation. The specifics of the train driver job, which affect motivation are presented, along with motivation theory. The case study, conducted using the placebo effect for three months in a medium-sized Eastern...

In order to remain on the forefront of driving simulation technology, it is necessary to continually upgrade and expand the capabilities of the NADS. One extension that is suggested by recent trends in the automotive marketplace is the ability to simulate hybrid electric vehicles. Support of hybrid electric vehicles by the NADS is motivated by the engineering and human factors challenges of des...

Abstract With the rapid development of economy and technology, people’s quality life has been continuously improved, which also makes people put forward higher requirements for transportation. As far as railway transportation is concerned, running speed route trains in past gradually failed to meet travel needs. Automatic train operation system (ATO), under protection automatic system, realizes...

We discuss the mathematical modelling of schedule based rail traffic. The model is used to develop efficient numerical simulation methods for the time optimal control of a large number of interacting trains in a large network. The time optimal control is used to model the realistic behaviour of driving in a network like that of Deutsche Bahn. It is used to allow a real time simulation with inco...