the fear of driving can be severe enough to be considered a phobia. it is often great enough that people will avoid driving at all costs and instead find someone to drive them or use public transportation, regardless of how inconvenient or expensive. this fear will cause many to avoid driving, create excuses to not drive, or even refuse to get a driver's license for years. the aim of this ...

The present study tested the effect of the combined use of alcohol and water on driving-related cognitions and behavior. Seventy-four female students performed a driving simulator task after having consumed alcohol or a placebo. Additionally, half of the participants consumed 0.5 liter of water. It was hypothesized that combining alcohol and water could lead to an underestimated perceived intox...

The present study tested the effect of the combined use of alcohol and water on driving-related cognitions and behavior. Seventy-four female students performed a driving simulator task after having consumed alcohol or a placebo. Additionally, half of the participants consumed 0.5 liter of water. It was hypothesized that combining alcohol and water could lead to an underestimated perceived intox...

Many patients with circumscribed brain injuries, such as those caused by stroke or focal trauma, return to driving after a period of acute recovery. These persons often have chronic residual cognitive deficits that may impact on driving safety, but little is known about their driving behavior in the real world. Extant studies tend to rely on driving simulators or controlled on-road drives. Thes...

We provide novel insights into the effects of private information in automobile insurance. Our analysis is based on telematic data of insured cars which includes detailed information about driving behavior that is unobservable to the insurance company. We find that private information about driving behavior has significant and counteracting effects on the choice of third-party liability and fir...

Driving is a complex behavior that recruits multiple cognitive elements. To attempt to delineate the underlying neuroanatomy of this cognitive complexity, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during driving simulation. We report an imaging study of simulated driving and identify several groups of regions, each modulated differently by our imaging paradigm. In order to parse out ...

This research studies freeway ramp merging phenomena under congested traffic situation via a Driving Simulator (DS). The main objectives of this study were to initially develop a traffic simulation, which evaluates the capacity of merging section relevant to the geometric design and the flow condition. Furthermore, to form a pilot system of the DS combined with the simulation, from which the dr...

Aggressive driving behavior is an important cause of traffic accidents. Based on the recent view that aggressive driving is one way that trait aggression manifests itself, a growing research area has focused on the development of scales to assess aggressive driving. The aggressive driving scale (ADS) analyzed in the present study consists of 24 items. A sample of 276 participants was analyzed t...

This paper develops a general theoretical framing of driver behavior expressing the relations among the different factors of driving behavior. Several sources of data should be used in order to estimate models based on this framework. This paper uses newly available In Vehicle Data Recorders (IVDR) data, as well as data about driving behavior, characteristics, attitudes and perceptions from tra...