Distracting activities while driving are common and can result in errors that threaten road users’ safety. The main objectives of this study were to investigate drivers’ perspectives the factors contributing distraction, determine relative rank types distractions, recognize environmental effects make distractions more dangerous, identify most effective measures reduce driver distractions. A sur...

In our study, we generate rules to determine whether or not a driver is cognitively distracted, using collected data about the driver’s eye movements and driving data by Inductive Logic Programming (ILP). We assigned a mental arithmetic task to the research participants to cause cognitive distraction and then learned the rules of the cognitive distraction using the cognitively distracted state ...

background and objectives: in many studies, chronic diseases are associated with incidence of driving accident. the main objective of the present study is investigation the effect of physical and mental disorders status of bus drivers on the occurrence of crashes. materials and methods: this research is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study that was performed on 665 bus drivers' pu...

background and objectives: in many studies, chronic diseases are associated with incidence of driving accident. the main objective of the present study is investigation the effect of physical and mental disorders status of bus drivers on the occurrence of crashes. materials and methods: this research is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study that was performed on 665 bus drivers' pu...

In our study, we generate rules to determine whether or not a driver is cognitively distracted, using collected data about the driver’s eye movements and driving data by Inductive Logic Programming (ILP). We assigned a mental arithmetic task to the research participants to cause cognitive distraction and then learned the rules of the cognitive distraction using the cognitively distracted state ...

We consider a task, demanding a sequence of efforts, that must be completed by a deadline. Effort is not contractible. Agents face shocks to their opportunity cost of time and are sometimes distracted from work. We show that agents who are often distracted may outperform agents who are distracted less often. The reason is that anticipation of distractions induces agents to start earlier for pre...

Rear-end collisions are one of the most frequent crash types in the U.S. Pre-Collision System (PCS) have been developed to mitigate the frequency and severity of rear-end collisions. The potential effectiveness of these systems, however, depends on the driver’s state and their attempted avoidance maneuvers. This study utilized the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey (NMVCCS), a unique...

Given evidence of effects of mobile phone use on driving, and also legislation, many careful drivers refrain from answering their phones when driving. However, the distracting influence of a call on driving, even in the context of not answering, has not been examined. Furthermore, given that not answering may be contrary to an individual's normal habits, this study examined whether distraction ...

The U.S. railroad system is made up of over 700 railroads operating on 140,000 miles of track, with more than 130,000 at-grade public railway-highway crossings, or intersections in which any part of a roadway intersects with railroad tracks. Safety at these railroad-highway grade crossings and the related traffic control devices used to communicate with drivers is of major concern. There are th...